Re: XFree dramatic memory leak?
On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 22:02, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 14:04, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 07:54, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 01:47, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 06:52, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > I just realized that the daily updatedb run caused this 1G Ti 15"
> > > > > powerbook to swap (with just some apps open under X).
>
> Ok, finally the problem reoccured and I found one client which seems to
> be responsible (taking 940MB as pixmaps) :
>
> Client 12 (base = 0x1a00000, mask = 0x1fffff): 7 resource types
> WINDOW: 4
> PIXMAP: 44 (940768384 bytes)
Whoa.
> GC: 21
> FONT: 7
> CURSOR: 33
> Unregistered resource 20: 2
> Unregistered resource 34: 1
>
> however the last action I did was popping up an xmms playlist window
> (which never appeared, but xmms quit instead)... then I found way to
> large window sizes in the .xmms/config file for that playlist window...
> so I don't know whether what I saw beforehand was a cause of this. So I
> better take back everything I said about memoryleaks until I see the
> problem reoccur without xmms. Sorry about that false report.
>
> However how can I find out who client 12 is ?
>From http://www.mail-archive.com/devel@xfree86.org/msg01104.html:
'You can usually tell which app is which by running xwininfo on an app
and finding out which client base (as reported by restest) it's window
is in.'
--
Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
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