Re: Memory Leak in XFree86
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 05:06, Jeremy Nickurak wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 17:34, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > You may be interested in this thread:
> >
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2003/debian-powerpc-200309/msg00109.html
>
> Unfortunately, clients leaking resources wouldn't explain why the same
> set of clients exhibits this problem under xfree86 4.3 but not in 4.2...
> would it?
Maybe not, but there's always many factors to consider; the apps could
only leak with code using functionality only available in 4.3, the leaks
could be in the new X libraries, if you have changed them, ...
> I've been trying to track this problem down for a long time, with no
> luck. Since the only other people having it that I can find are also
> running debian, I was interested in an easy way to install X minus all
> the patches we use, but was unable to build debs of it. (I don't
> currently have a system where I can safely install something as big as X
> from upstream without using a package manager... just a matter of
> reliability). If someone can suggest a clean way of installing X 4.3.0
> without any patches, and still getting me a 99.9% reliable way of
> reverting to debian packages, I'm more than willing to test this theory.
Install it somewhere in /usr/local (or anywhere out of the way of the
package management system, for that matter) and point the server's
ModulePath there. You could also try my xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk
packages though, which are only minimally patched.
--
Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
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