Hello. I just want to add that the reported problem is not a generic debian one. I have the same problem with an Intel 855GME chipset running Fedora Core 3. Since this bugreport is the only reference I found on google I want to add some notes here.
Running both the stable 6.8.1 and the development release 6.8.1.902 of X.Org I see the X-Server consuming more and more memory the longer it runs. When started I have around 24 MB resident mem, after several hours that goes up to over 100 MB and some days later most of my 512 MB are used by the X-server and the system starts to swap heavily. Using gpdf I can reproduce that much faster, but also firefox or VMware are able to fill up the memory quickly with no chance to get it free again, beside from restarting the X-Server. As far as I understand from reading the current messages in this bug only some people are affected by this. But since it occurs with both the i810 and the vesa driver (as said by Gintautas Miliauskas) there should be a way to reproduce it on a wider base. Gintautas suggested that it may be some personal tweaking in his configuration that leads to that problem, but I heavily doubt it, since I use a simple configuration myself, which was in fact auto-generated by the system-install programs. If it is any use I will provide pmap outputs or configuration details, I just don't know for what to look at, since everything was already reported here and matches my experiences exactly. Regards, Matthias
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