Re: Etch Xorg memory leak?
I had the same trouble was my video driver which made that ...
Switch to last version of nvidia solved the trouble for me !
regards,
Le dimanche 13 mai 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty a écrit :
> I'm having trouble with Xorg under Etch i386 and similar annoyance under
> amd64.
>
> Over time, xorg takes up more and more memory. On my i386, I only have
> 64 MB of ram so I can only run X for about 45 minutes before the system
> thrashes. Eventually, Xorg dies but doesn't release the screen. If I
> let the system sit for about 60 minutes, the thrashing subsides and I
> can ssh in and reboot to get my screen back. Hard on the disk, but the
> i386 is only a client box.
>
> On my amd64 Athlon64, I have 1 GB of ram so can run xorg; I haven't left
> this computer run long enough to run out of memory and thrash since its
> my main box; it gets turned off at night and through the day acts as a
> server. In the evening if I want to access the big screen, I'll run X
> for a couple of hours.
>
> This happens irrespective of window manager or DTE; on the i386 icewm
> takes up less memory so Xorg will run longer before thrashing than if
> I'm running xfce. It also happens if I don't use a wm at all and just
> run rxvt.
>
> Is anyone else seeing this? Is it fixed in Lenny/Sid? Any plans to fix
> it for Etch?
>
> Thanks,
> Doug.
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Hervé Piedvache
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