Bug#673349: Can badly behaved user program cause this? (was Re: Bug#673349: xorg: Xorg consumes loads of memory for no good reason)

[Daniel Dickinson <daniel@cshore.neomailbox.net>]

Hi,

I am wondering if a badly behaved user program could cause the Xorg
server to end up with increasing memory usage that doesn't get released
even after the program is closed.  The reason I ask is that I am
suspecting the issue is gkrellm (see below), but I don't know if that
is a reasonable suspicion.

The reasons I suspect gkrellm are:

1) The problem didn't appear until after I started using gkrellm on them
2) On the physical machine were I noticed similar issues I was using
gkrellm
3) gkrellm has other outstanding bugs, including segfault with remote
gkrelltopd, when accessed from the client
4) After ditching gkrellm the problem is not occurring (at least not
yet, might need a few days to be sure of that; there is the
possibility that's just because gkrellm keeps the video 'doing stuff').

Regards,

Daniel

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