memory leak, possibly xorg?
Dave Airlie
airlied at redhat.com
Wed Aug 29 22:16:14 UTC 2007
On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 14:40 -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
> 28186 root 20 0 864m 613m 8744 S 1 30.3 27:53.95 Xorg
>
>
> 30470 XXXXXXX 20 0 644m 294m 35m S 0 14.5 7:38.00
> thunderbird-bin
>
> 30492 XXXXXXX 20 0 285m 135m 37m S 0 6.7 6:43.94
> firefox-bin
>
> Fedora 7 32 bit on Athlon 64 X2
>
> It happens almost daily. In the morning, the machine is fine. In the
> afternoon, 2GB of RAM are not enough, it starts swapping. A
> logout/login
> makes the problem go away for a few more hours.
>
> I'm using Firefox, Thunderbird, gnome-terminal and a few other random
> things occasionally (XMMS, Gimp, etc).
>
> I'm not doing anything special with this machine, just a normal
> workstation.
>
> If you need more details, let me know.
Please try using xrestop to see if one application is abusing X as
swap... I'm looking at firefox..
Dave.
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