On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 23:48:26 -0500, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > After a recent Xorg upgrade (1:7.3+20 -> 1:7.4+4), my Xorg server leaks > memory like a sieve. RSS slowly grows until my box starts to OOM. If I > restart Xorg prior to OOMing, the memory is freed and I can gracefully > recover. I am running the nv driver. > > Some things I have noticed: > > If I exit X and only leave the display manager running, RSS does not > substantially grow. > > I don't have to leave any particular client open to hit the leak. > > xrestop shows that my total usage is typically around 30MiB. I have > been unable to capture data that shows pixmaps being leaked. > > The leak is fairly slow - it really does take a day or two to get to the > 1G mark. In the past hour or so, it's grown from 70MiB to 90MiB. > > I am happy to collect any information requested to help troubleshoot > this - it's very annoying. > You could try running X under valgrind (with debugging symbols installed). It would be fairly slow, but could give some hints. IIRC 1.7 fixed a memleak related to cursors, do you have some clients that create cursors?
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