blue screen of death after logout

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 10:23 -0400, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> >>> Does the X server have to be restarted for every login? 
> >> I don't know about now, but it's been found to be advantageous to, in
> >> the past.  X is big, and if it eats your memory as it runs, it can be a
> >> problem on systems that run continuously.
> > 
> > There was a time when it didn't restart, then a few releases back it was
> > decided that it should. I for one am happier the way it is now because
> 
> Is this configurable?

I don't know, but if so it would be controlled by the display manager
(which is the parent of X) so you would need to look there, i.e. config
options for gdm or kdm.

> > my X server definitely leaks memory quite severely. I posted about this
> > a while back (see
> > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2008-September/msg00036.html) but got no reaction. The problem is quite solid and reproducible. I was holding off reporting it to BZ in case any of the pending updates fixed it but they haven't.
> 
> You should post your results to xorg at lists.freedesktop.org. They will 
> get more serious attention there.

OK, thanks.

poc