memory leak in X server
Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
d.jacobfeuerborn at conversis.de
Mon Sep 4 18:31:00 UTC 2006
Tomasz Kłoczko wrote:
> Dnia 03-09-2006, nie o godzinie 20:40 +0200, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
> napisał(a):
>> Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> Tomasz Kłoczko <kloczek at zie.pg.gda.pl> wrote:
>>>
>>>> # ps auxw | grep Xorg
>>>> root 14318 21.3 26.8 1253392 556080 tty7 Ss+ Aug29
>>>> 1292:34 /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -audit 0 -auth /var/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp
>>>> vt7
>>> I've seen something like that with FC6-to-be before, but not during the
>>> last 10 days or so.
>> I reported something similar on the fedora-test-list:
>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2006-August/msg00404.html
>>
>> Recent updates seem to have fixed this though.
>
> Yesterday I perform upgrade and after ~30h now I have:
>
> 3442 root 15 0 1113m 948m 11m S 20 46.8 206:30.92 Xorg
>
> but in this probably I found cause. xrestop shows:
>
> xrestop - Display: localhost:0
> Monitoring 38 clients. XErrors: 0
> Pixmaps: 1183805K total, Other: 218K total, All: 1184024K
> total
> res-base Wins GCs Fnts Pxms Misc Pxm mem Other Total PID
> Identifier
> 2a00000 638 47 1 4072 164 1112938K 20K 1112959K 3752 UF -
> Cartoon Archive
>
> "UF - Cartoon Archive" it is galeon resources. After killing galeon top
> shows:
>
> 3442 root 19 0 304m 191m 10m R 74 9.4 209:07.55 Xorg
>
> kloczek
>
>
Galeon is Gecko based and Gecko loves to store huge amounts of pixmaps in
the X server. Whenever you want to measure Xorg memory usage it's a good
idea to close any instance of Firefox/Seamonkey/Galeon/whatever first.
Regards,
Dennis
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