Memory leaks are NOT a thing of the past. I have a serious one right now, where using Firefox and visiting pages with a lot of images causes the X server to leak a huge amount of heap memory, to the point that it uses up approximately 800 MB of my 1 gig of RAM and I have to restart the X server frequently. There are other leaks that are slower, but they're still there.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/2/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Barry Scott</b> <<a href="mailto:barry.scott@onelan.co.uk">barry.scott@onelan.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Stuart Kreitman wrote:<br>> Barry Scott wrote:<br>>> Michel Dänzer wrote:<br>>>> On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 10:58 +0100, Barry Scott wrote:<br>>>><br>>>>> I'm wondering if it is reasonable to prevent the server from doing
<br>>>>> the reset<br>>>>> when the last client disconnects?<br>>>>><br>>>><br>>>> Try it for yourself:<br>>>><br>>>> Xorg -noreset<br>>>><br>
>>><br>>> Thanks I've added to my X service startup.<br>>><br>>> But I'd still like to know why the reset is there at all?<br>>><br>> 21 years ago, it was effective in covering up memory leaks and other
<br>> crud giving the<br>> appearance of great uptime.<br>><br>> Stuart K<br>><br>I suspected something like this. I'll sleep happy that -noreset is safe<br>to use.<br><br>Is there any reason why Xorg should not have noreset as the default now that
<br>the memory leaks etc are a thing of the past?<br><br>Barry<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>xorg mailing list<br><a href="mailto:xorg@lists.freedesktop.org">xorg@lists.freedesktop.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg">
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