[Apologies for the duplicate email; mailman didn't let the mail through the first time, due to using the wrong From address.] On Jan 30, 2006, at 6:28 AM, Randy Bush wrote: >> The new malloc implementation still it is going to be perfected, >> in my station: >> >> Xorg increase +/- 40% >> Firefox increase +/- 60% >> Amule increase +/- 30% >> >> I not recompile this ports after world. >> >> Ricardo A. Reis >> UNIFESP >> Unix and Network Admin > > let me be more clear. this is a leak, not an increase. > > if i leave the system untouched (and it's a laptop which runs no > net services), memory use by xorg (shown by top) slowly goes from > under 100m to 500m in four hours. and it keeps going until it > starts to swap. and it keeps going until it crashes the system. > > and this is new with build and portupgrade of 2006.01.23, a week > ago. On 25 January, I checked in some malloc changes that fix some severe fragmentation problems. Can you please try with a newer libc, and see if the problem persists? Thanks, JasonReceived on Mon Jan 30 2006 - 18:54:18 UTC
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