Re: XFree86 Memory usage

[Robin <funky_cheeze@usa.net>]

Dale Hair wrote:

> On Sun, 2002-09-15 at 19:00, Leo Spalteholz wrote:
>  
>
> > I've noticed recently that if I keep my computer up for a while 
> > (2 days or so) the swap fills up until its all used (~360MB). 
> > top shows that XFree86 is using 441MB.  Now I realize that 64MB 
> > of that would be my video ram but 377MB is still huge.
> > I know that linux tries to use all available ram but isn't that 
> > limited to physical ram?
> >
> > Or does XFree86 have a major memory leak somewhere?  I am running 
> > testing with no 3rd party packages installed.
> >    
>
> I've noticed the same thing using testing.  Galeon seems to be the
> culprit on my machine.
>
>
>  
funny, I thought KDE3 was the culprit... so I switched back to wmaker, 
the leak is much slower, but still exists...  XFree86 doesn't show to 
use 400MB of ram, though, my memory totally disappears.