Re: /lib/libc-2.3.2.so eats my memory

[Philipp Kaeser <kaeser@gubbe.ch>]

Is it possible that you have some application running
under XFree86?

(if an application gets stuck in a loop where
it is constantly allocating X resources, this
might explain the behaviour)

Klaus Kettner wrote:
> Am Mon, 4 Jul 2005 13:13:15 +0200 schrieb Sylvain Joyeux:
>
>
> > memstat PID -> process mapping is broken (I don't know why). Check what 
> > process has PID 794
>
>
> Ah, i forgot to mention that 794 is XFree.
>
> The logfile says:
>
>
> > XFree86 Version 4.3.0.1 (Debian 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 20050601083925
> > root@voltaire.debian.org) Release Date: 15 August 2003
> > X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
> > Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.29-rc1-voltaire ppc [ELF]
> > Build Date: 01 June 2005
>
>
> /proc/794/status says:
>
>
> > Name:   XFree86
> > State:  S (sleeping)
> > Tgid:   794
> > Pid:    794
> > PPid:   781
> > TracerPid:      0
> > Uid:    0       0       0       0
> > Gid:    0       0       0       0
> > FDSize: 256
> > Groups:
> > VmSize:   177692 kB
> > VmLck:         0 kB
> > VmRSS:     24908 kB
> > VmData:   149508 kB
> > VmStk:        72 kB
> > VmExe:      1660 kB
> > VmLib:      1916 kB
> > SigPnd: 0000000000000000
> > SigBlk: 0000000000000000
> > SigIgn: 0000000000001000
> > SigCgt: 00000000518066cb
> > CapInh: 0000000000000000
> > CapPrm: 00000000fffffeff
> > CapEff: 00000000fffffeff
>
>
> Does that help? I couldn't find valgrind for Debian PPC, any methods do find
> out whats going wrong?