On 11/26/2009 03:42 AM, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've noticed a slow memory leak which causes Xorg to burn through all > the memory on my workstation. After leaving it run approximately 30 > hours, the RSS is at 55.6% of 2GiB. I have returned to an OOMed box > that I had to powercycle. Last night, I came back to an RSS of ~80% > of 2GiB, all of my swap used, but was able to kill and restart Xorg in > time. xrestop show usage of about 30MiB. > > There is a potential match in the Debian BTS [1], but there is no > solution, or even a guess. > > I don't know much else about troubleshooting memory leaks in the X > server. What should I look at next? > > This is Xorg 7.4, X server 1.6.5, nv driver, no compositing manager, > no DRI. System is Debian testing/unstable. > > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=531071
I'm seeing the same thing on Fedora 11: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=531779 Regards, Dennis _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
