On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 01:58:38PM -0500, ross wrote: > On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 09:11:23AM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > > You could try running X under valgrind (with debugging symbols > > installed). It would be fairly slow, but could give some hints. > > IIRC 1.7 fixed a memleak related to cursors, do you have some clients > > that create cursors? > > Yes, I do - I am using an E17 theme that creates custom cursors. I've > disabled that and restarted, I'll try to confirm that's the issue and > then look into to running X under valgrind. Yep, it looks like you pretty much hit the nail on the head. After disabling custom cursors, Xorg's RSS is at 33MiB after being left all night. It sounds like the fix is known, and I'm just waiting for 1.7 to bubble into the distro. Is there any reason you are interested in the valgrind output? I'll leave the cursors disabled for now. Thanks for the tip, Ross -- Ross Vandegrift ross@kallisti.us "If the fight gets hot, the songs get hotter. If the going gets tough, the songs get tougher." --Woody Guthrie
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