xfree86 is slowly consuming all of my memory
Hello,
I have a box running Debian testing with a 2.4.18 kernel. The
box has 384MB of memory. Right now, my memory is almost totally used
up. Here is a snapshot of the first few lines of top, sorting tasks by
memory usage:
08:09:04 up 2 days, 17:01, 3 users, load average: 2.15, 2.05, 2.02
80 processes: 77 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 0.8% user, 2.3% system, 96.9% nice, 0.0% idle
Mem: 384756K total, 375588K used, 9168K free, 48768K buffers
Swap: 1004020K total, 396K used, 1003624K free, 97380K cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
2561 root 5 -10 124M 107M 3956 S < 2.7 28.6 0:35 XFree86
3890 nobody 9 0 16196 15M 724 S 0.0 4.2 0:00 xfs-xtt
2626 bryanw 9 0 10084 9.8M 7124 S 0.0 2.6 0:03 nautilus
2655 bryanw 9 0 10084 9.8M 7124 S 0.0 2.6 0:00 nautilus
2656 bryanw 9 0 10084 9.8M 7124 S 0.0 2.6 0:00 nautilus
2657 bryanw 9 0 10084 9.8M 7124 S 0.0 2.6 0:00 nautilus
2658 bryanw 9 0 10084 9.8M 7124 S 0.0 2.6 0:00 nautilus
2659 bryanw 9 0 10084 9.8M 7124 S 0.0 2.6 0:00 nautilus
2628 bryanw 9 0 5232 5232 3976 S 0.0 1.3 0:04 panel
2759 bryanw 9 0 4748 4748 2844 S 0.0 1.2 0:03 dillo
2789 bryanw 8 0 4748 4748 2844 S 0.0 1.2 0:00 dillo
Now, X is using 107M, or 124M depeding on what you are looking at. If I
were to kill X and then start it back up, the memory usage would be back
down to around 15 to 20MB. But slowly, it creeps back up. I am running
the current Debian testing X packages for the x86 architecture, 4.1.0-17.
Any ideas on what is going on here?
Thanks,
Bryan Walton
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