Bug#457957: Xserver eats too much memory
More info using xrestop:
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 6213 5.2 41.9 876260 871360 tty7 RLs+ 02:52 0:56 /usr/bin/X -br -nolisten tcp :0 vt7 -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-rOJXrs
while xrestop gives:
xrestop - Display: :0.0
Monitoring 27 clients. XErrors: 94
Pixmaps: 8511K total, Other: 226K total, All: 8737K total
res-base Wins GCs Fnts Pxms Misc Pxm mem Other Total PID Identifier
1a00000 66 93 1 150 228 5944K 10K 5954K 6388 KDE Desktop
1c00000 193 41 1 187 372 1038K 15K 1053K 6390 kicker
2e00000 535 126 1 418 797 611K 35K 646K 6434 XXXX - KMail
....
$ cat /proc/6213/status
Name: Xorg
VmPeak: 990772 kB
VmSize: 876260 kB
VmLck: 168 kB
VmHWM: 956588 kB
VmRSS: 871360 kB
VmData: 854744 kB
VmStk: 84 kB
VmExe: 1592 kB
VmLib: 17224 kB
VmPTE: 900 kB
Threads: 1
This looks like 100% memory leak. It happened after using iceweasel for
10 minutes to view some google maps.
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