Re: KDE background program causing X memory leak?
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 03:05:09PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote:
> I've set up my KDE background to "Background Program", which runs the
> command:
>
> nice -n 19 xplanet --geometry %xx%y -cloud_image ~/.xplanet/clouds_2000.jpg -projection orthographic -latitude 40 -longitude 250 --output %f.jpg && mv %f.jpg %f
>
> at 15 minute intervals. This is similar to the instructions given in
> the xplanet FAQ.
>
> However, every time the background updates itself, X's memory usage
> increases by about 8 MB. Right now, X is using 356MB of RAM, and it
> will keep increasing on every update until there's no system memory
> left, upon which X crashes. Apparently, X doesn't free up the memory
> used by the previous background images.
>
> Any ideas how to fix this?
File a bug against xplanet.
--
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
Reply to: