memory leak in X server

Tomasz Kłoczko kloczek at zie.pg.gda.pl
Sat Sep 2 19:08:29 UTC 2006


Dnia 02-09-2006, sob o godzinie 19:42 +0200, Arjan van de Ven
napisał(a):
> On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 18:52 +0200, Tomasz Kłoczko wrote:
> > Looks like in X server is memory leak.
> > Content of /proc/<Xorg_pid>/smaps in attachemt.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> X also stores memory on behalf of other applications.
> The "xrestop" program shows how much it stores on behalf of which
> application. Can you run xrestop to check if it's not an application
> that is making X behave badly?

xrestop - Display: localhost:0
          Monitoring 40 clients. XErrors: 256
          Pixmaps:   87485K total, Other:     249K total, All:   87735K
total

xrestop shows tenths MBs allocated memory but Xorg heap takes hundreds
MBs.

kloczek





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