Announcing Fedora 7 Test 2 (6.91)
Christopher Blizzard
blizzard at redhat.com
Thu Mar 1 19:01:09 UTC 2007
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 19:54 +0100, Tomasz Kłoczko wrote:
> Dnia 01-03-2007, czw o godzinie 12:49 -0500, Adam Jackson napisał(a):
> > You say this as though there were only one X server memory leak.
> >
> > Or as though you had a working testcase.
> >
> > Or as though it were actually X's fault instead of some boneheaded
> > application you happen to be running.
> [..]
>
> Run any gecko application (firefox, galeon, epiphany) and open page with
> short refresh time (I have usualy openned page with system monitoring
> like mrtg or zabbix) and start observe groving X server memory
> consumption.
That's Gecko, not the X server. It has pretty aggressive image caching
and stores the pixmaps on the server, not in its own memory. If you
shut down that process and the X server returns to something sane it's
not an X leak. (It's even arguable that if it doesn't shrink it's still
not an X leak but is a fragmented allocator, but that's another
discussion.)
--Chris
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