On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 01:39:35AM +0000, Anders Karlsson wrote: > > 1) Have you read the Debian X FAQ entry on this issue? > > > > http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xsf/XFree86/trunk/debian/local/FAQ.xhtml#xservmemory > > I had not read that particular entry, but have read it now. I already > knew how the X server worked though, about caching pixmaps etc. Okay -- sorry for the redundancy. > > 2) Do you think you are experiencing the same problem as seen in bug > > #279940? > > > > http://bugs.debian.org/279940 > > I am experimenting with that now, although my results will not be > relevant to this case anymore, as I have migrated the problematic > machine onto Ubuntu. If the "leak" I experience is in the flash plugin, > I should still see the problem, even if I have ditched XFree86 in favour > of X.org. > > > 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? > > Uhm, as I said above, my results will probably not have any bearing on > this defect anymore. If it looks like the flash problem, I will post > snapshots of xrestop. It should be Firefox eating huge amounts of X > memory but I would have thought that closing the browser should free > that memory from the X server, or is that a wrong assumption... You might try experimenting with the XAA pixmap options as I just suggested in my mail to Gintautas Miliauskas; see <URL: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=284448 > for it. -- G. Branden Robinson | "To be is to do" -- Plato Debian GNU/Linux | "To do is to be" -- Aristotle branden@debian.org | "Do be do be do" -- Sinatra http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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