Re: massive memory leaks in X

[Bernd Eckenfels <lists@lina.inka.de>]

On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:13:11AM -0800, Ian Eure wrote:
> 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.

You can see with memstat how much actual /dev/mem memory the X server has
mmaped:


   3124k: PID   422 (/usr/X11R6/bin/xfs)
    100k: PID   428 (/usr/X11R6/bin/xfstt)
  33536k: PID   506 (/dev/mem)
    216k: PID 27191 (/usr/bin/memstat)
3771776k: /dev/mem 506
     80k: /dev/zero 27128 27170
   1452k: /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 506

<hmm looks like another bug in memstat :) >

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Bernd
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