on Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 12:26:25AM +0200, Micha Feigin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 13:48:38 -0800 > Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 01:22:39PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 01:09:55PM -0800, Bill Moseley ([EMAIL > > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Anyone else experiencing leaks in Xorg? > > > > > > Yep, yep, yep.... > > > > > > As gravity (David Nusinow, packager) says, "it's what it does best". > > > > > > Presumably if you want to help you could run it under valgrind. > > > > Ok, I can try -- but it seems to leak somewhat slowly. It's just that > > I tend to keep my desktop running for months at a time. > > > > I have a root window image that updates ever five minutes. I thought > > I saw somewhere were that might be the leak, but I couldn't see it > > leak by updating my root window. > > > > For me it has always been process related. X seems to develop some insane > memory leak and then when I close the offending process things are ok again. > Can't recall now what where suspect culprits (I think it was something either > web/flash related or dri).
I've definitely seen Flash be the culprit (yet another strike against), but I've also closed down pretty darned near everything under my session (including the windowmanager and applets), and still had a huge X instance. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? The black hat community is drooling over the possibility of a secure execution environment that would allow applications to run in a secure area which cannot be attached to via debuggers. - Jason Spence, on Palladium aka NGCSB aka "Trusted Computing"
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