On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 11:29:17PM +0200, Jens Hoffmann wrote: > On Tuesday 26 June 2001 22:10, Jens Benecke wrote: > > <OT> > > > > Are you also suspecting the current (1.0-1251) drivers to have a memory > > hole? My XFree86 process eats about 250MB of virtual memory, that's > > fifteen times as much as the ATI (gatos) driver on my laptop needs. And > > this requirement grows over time, I can't let X run for >3 days because > > then my VM will be all used up (192MB RAM + 250MB swap) </OT> > > top reports 193MB for Xfree86 for me (including 32MB Framebuffer + IO > space) seems still a bit much, but i didn't notice any growth in mem > usage so far. well... is this normal? I mean the nv driver only ate about 20MB. And even that is quite a lot. > but, if you have an app with an memleak, it's not necessarily the X > driver: if a program allocates a shared pixmap the space gets accounted > for X, although it belongs to the program. How do I find out what to blame? > just to come back on topic: 8-) i read a bugreport on the kde-develop > archives, that a recent build of kde2.2 cvs has/had a memleak in the > display of desktop background pictures which resulted in growth of > Xfree86.. maybe its something like that. I'll look. Thanks. -- Jens Benecke http://www.hitchhikers.de/ - Die kostenlose Mitfahrzentrale für ganz Europa
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