Re: massive memory leaks in X

[Julian Stoev <stoev@mail.bulgaria.com>]

On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 09:02:04AM +0200, Sami Haahtinen wrote:
|i've seen this on woody and 4.0.. lost some 100-200Mb of mem (virtual, 50-50
|swap & physical) in 5 minutes.
|
|havent seen this in a while though. 
|
|i've got pretty much the same hardware as you.. except for my NVidia display
|adapter

Exactly the same - here.
PIII-500 128MB 

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "ATI Xpert 98"
    Driver      "ati"
    VideoRam    8192
    # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection

Happened on 2.2.17, but it looks well for now on 2.2.18pre21
Lot of swap was used. 

|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.