Server X process taking 250 Mo - leaking ?

[Jerome Lacoste <jerome.lacoste@smarttech.no>]

I have the following in top:

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND 
  532 root      16 -10  289M  32M  7528 S <  54.6  6.5   8:35 XFree86 

I think there is a problem there. XFree86 takes way too much space and
CPU. Have anybody encountered the same problem? 

Now after a restart it is:

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 1895 root       9 -10  281M  25M  7528 S <   0.1  5.0   1:01 XFree86

I think it still takes a lot of memory. Is that normal?


I didn't notice that before last week, after I tried to enable true type
fonts. I followed the "True Type Fonts in Debian mini-HOWTO". 
But I reversed it, i.e. my  XF86config-4 file is back to the original. 

Appart from xfstt still running (but not referenced in my XF86Config
file), I don't think there is a difference with my configuration. 

I run Debian unstable on a Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop. The laptop
contains an NVidia GeForce 2 graphic card.

Extract of my XF86config-4 file. 
--------
Section "Files" 
#       FontPath        "unix/:7101"                    # local True
Type font server 
        FontPath        "unix/:7100"                    # local font
server 
        # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on
these 
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc" 
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" 
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" 
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" 
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" 
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" 
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" 
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" 
EndSection 
--------

Some of the software installed on the machine:
ii  xfree86-common 4.1.0-17       X Window System (XFree86)
infrastructure
ii  xserver-xfree8 4.1.0-17       the XFree86 X server
ii  nvidia-glx     1.0.2880-2     NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x driver
ii  nvidia-glx-dev 1.0.2880-2     NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x driver
development
ii  xfs            4.1.0-17       X font server
ii  libttf2        1.4pre.2001102 FreeType 1, The FREE TrueType Font
Engine, s
ii  msttcorefonts  1.0.1          Installer for Microsoft TrueType core
fonts
ii  x-ttcidfont-co 13             Configure TrueType and CID fonts for
X.
ii  xfstt          1.2.1-1        TrueType Font Server for X11


I just reinstalled the new NVidia drivers.

Any idea?

Cheers,

Jerome


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