Re: Etch Xorg memory leak?

[Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 10:22:00AM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote:
> On 05/13/2007 06:51 AM, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> >I'm having trouble with Xorg under Etch i386 and similar annoyance under
> >amd64.
> >
> >Over time, xorg takes up more and more memory. [...]
> 
> I also installed Etch on a computer that has only 64MB of RAM, and I 
> haven't noticed this problem. As Hervé Piedvache suggested, it looks 
> like it's related to the video driver.
> 
> Try out the VESA driver and see if the problem recurs.

Would if I could.  On the i386, dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg asks if I
want automatic video device yes/no, saying that no allows me to choose
the appropriate driver.  I choos no and still get no choice.  I change
"trident" to "vesa" in the xorg.conf and startx complains no such
driver.  I read man xorg.conf and under see also, it lists vesa(4) as
well trident(4).  I try man vesa, no manual entry.  I try man trident and
get a man page.  It seems that debian's i386 Etch doesn't include vesa
or something else screwy is going on.

Continuing to focus on the i386 box with 64 MB ram (the one that
eventually dies from Parkinson's law): 

Its day-to-day perpose is as a slim client to my other (Athlon64) box.
It doesn't have the resourses to run anything big on its own.  So to
read a pdf I use ssh and run kpdf on the athlon box.  I can read for
about 20 minutes (15 pages or so) before the box dies.

Thanks,

Doug.



FYI, here's my xorg.conf.


# /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the /etc/X11/xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man /etc/X11/xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
#   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "Files"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
	FontPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
	FontPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
	FontPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
	FontPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
	FontPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
	FontPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
	FontPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
	# path to defoma fonts
	FontPath	"/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load	"bitmap"
	Load	"ddc"
	Load	"dri"
	Load	"extmod"
	Load	"freetype"
	Load	"glx"
	Load	"int10"
	Load	"vbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Generic Keyboard"
	Driver		"kbd"
	Option		"CoreKeyboard"
	Option		"XkbRules"	"xorg"
	Option		"XkbModel"	"pc101"
	Option		"XkbLayout"	"us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Configured Mouse"
	Driver		"mouse"
	Option		"CorePointer"
	Option		"Device"		"/dev/input/mice"
	Option		"Protocol"		"ImPS/2"
	Option		"Emulate3Buttons"	"true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Trident Microsystems 3DImage 9750"
	Driver		"trident"
	BusID		"PCI:1:1:0"
	VideoRam	4096
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Samtron 76V"
	Option		"DPMS"
	HorizSync	30-70
	VertRefresh	50-160
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Device		"Trident Microsystems 3DImage 9750"
	Monitor		"Samtron 76V"
	DefaultDepth	24
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		1
		Modes		"1024x768"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		4
		Modes		"1024x768"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		8
		Modes		"1024x768"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		15
		Modes		"1024x768"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		16
		Modes		"1024x768"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		24
		Modes		"1024x768"
		Virtual		1280 800
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier	"Default Layout"
	Screen		"Default Screen"
	InputDevice	"Generic Keyboard"
	InputDevice	"Configured Mouse"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
	Mode	0666
EndSection