Bug#531071: xserver memory leak
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 08:52:03AM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 22:16:34 -0500, Adam Majer wrote:
>
> > Driver "nvidia"
>
> I'm afraid there's not much we can do with this, and unless you can
> reproduce and investigate with a free driver we'll have to close this
> bug.
As you can see, that was just additional information as in "me
too". AFAIK, the original bug report was for Intel and there was also
reports for radeon.
I've read reports that "it is well known that firefox leaks X memory"
and I have observed such behaviour. X will slowly increase its RSS
footprint, though it's not very significant for me. What I don't
understand is *how* can firefox result in X leak? Doesn't X keep track
of which program (or window) allocates what resources?
Is there a method to determine which part of X allocated what memory?
Is it possible or advisable to run X under Valgrind?
I'll also try using the nouvau driver on the weekend (from the 2.3.34
kernel) and try to reproduce the memory leak.
- Adam
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Adam Majer
adamm@zombino.com
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