Re: massive memory leaks in X
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Charl P. Botha wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 03:25:52PM -0800, Ian Eure wrote:
> > since i've upgraded my workstation to potato 2.2r1, i've seen some really
> > huge memory leaks with X; on the order of 100-200mb.
> >
> > i've submitted a bug, #77322, but have not gotten any reply.
> >
> > i'm just curious to know if anyone else has seen this happen. i've got a
> > PIII-450, 192mb ram, and a matrox g200 agp.
>
> This is probably normal and it probably happened with you before you
> upgraded to 2.2r1. This is a function of the AGP mapping and X isn't
> actually using that much of your RAM. Pieces of AGP space are also being
> tallied up and this throws things out of whack.
>
no, i believe this is a genuine memory leak. i suspect that if it was agp
mapping, it wouldn't start swapping other programs out, and my swap
utilization has crept up to ~30%. and i have 192mb of swap.
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