retitle 281050 xserver-xfree86: server has memory leaks reassign 281050 xserver-xfree86: server has memory leaks severity 281050 normal tag 281050 + moreinfo thanks On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 04:01:34PM +0100, Piotr Roszatycki wrote: > Package: xserver-common > Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 > Severity: important > > # pmap 9617 > 9617: /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-tkybcM > vt7 [...] > total 936844K On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 09:30:13PM +0200, Gintautas Miliauskas wrote: > I'm experiencing heavy XFree86 memory leaking as well. I killed the > process before finding out about this bug report, so I can't provide any > useful info right now. Over around 100 hours of active usage the > resident part grew to more than 200MB (right now after restarting X it > is a mere 16MB), and the system became really sluggish. > > The bug should not be related to a particular desktop environment or > application: I have switched to GNOME a couple of days ago, because I > thought KDE was slow -- but apparently this leak had been the problem > all the time! It somehow never struck me to check the memory usage of > the X server, until now. > > Please fix this bug, it is *extremely* annoying and disappointing to think > that I will have to restart every couple days to have a usable system. On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 11:38:44PM +0000, Anders Karlsson wrote: > The memory leak is prevalent on the radeon chipset as well. As Gintautas > Miliauskas described, after about 100 hours runtime, the X server is > taking up about 250+ MB of resident memory. I tend to have running > openbox, gnome-panel, firefox, xchat and a few WindowMaker applets. > > If this could be fixed, it would certainly make work easier. I have some questions for you gentlemen: 1) Have you read the Debian X FAQ entry on this issue? http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xsf/XFree86/trunk/debian/local/FAQ.xhtml#xservmemory 2) Do you think you are experiencing the same problem as seen in bug #279940? http://bugs.debian.org/279940 3) Can you please use the "xrestop" program and provide (text) screenshots of its operation, so we can see if there are any culpable clients? -- G. Branden Robinson | Measure with micrometer, Debian GNU/Linux | mark with chalk, branden@debian.org | cut with axe, http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | hope like hell.
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