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Re: xfree86 is slowly consuming all of my memory



On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 08:34:48AM -0700, nate wrote:

> memory usage in X will increase(it doesn't free up everything) over
> time as you open and close more apps, that is normal in my experience
> too.

Note that this isn't usually X's fault, but the fault of the particular
apps as they intern images and don't retain a way to free the images.
X, itself has no way to know when or how such images should be free'd.

-- 
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>



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