Re: Memory Leak in XFree86

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 17:43, Jim Crumley wrote:
> 
> So this is not just another case of looking at top and thinking that
> X is too big.  X, or some process that it is allocating memory
> for, is holding too much memory and it won't let it go.

You may be interested in this thread:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2003/debian-powerpc-200309/msg00109.html

(Maybe something about restest should be added to the FAQ?)


> Which leads new that the FAQ did teach me, 
> cat /proc/$(pidof X)/maps . Unfortunately I haven't been able to
> decipher it.

http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/files/analyse-x.pl

is a fun program which analyses the X server mappings and explains what
they mean.


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