Re: xorg 6.9.0 mem leak

From: Kris Kennaway <kris_at_obsecurity.org>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:54:08 -0500
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 01:49:43PM -0800, Randy Bush wrote:
> > Sorry, what are you saying the problem is here?
> 
> maybe this will appeal more
> 
>   PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU COMMAND
>  2166 randy         4  20    0   166M   108M kserel   3:51  0.00% firefox-bin
>  1343 randy         1  96    0   126M 83500K select   2:44  2.00% Xorg
>  1394 randy         4  20    0   102M 51456K kserel   0:08  0.00% nautilus

Those numbers don't really mean much unless you can show a comparison
to something that you consider "good" (i.e. running under the old
malloc).  e.g. it's not hard to make firefox-bin use 108M of resident
memory on *any* system.

> and the Xorg one just keeps growing and growing and growing.

That's a different matter though.

Kris

Received on Mon Jan 30 2006 - 20:54:10 UTC

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