Known memory leaks in Xorg 6.8.1?

[Vladimir Dergachev]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Sergei Mutovkin wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm wondering if there are known memory leaks in Xorg 6.8.1?
> What happens is that we are running Kylix 3 based GUI fullscreen
> without any window manager, the GUI updated with graphics every
> second. After continuous operation for 3-4 days X process occupies 80%
> of available ram according to "top" and whole thing is unusable.

This can happen if your GUI is leaking pixmaps or anything else that is 
using offscreen memory.

Try opening a minimized xclock, killing your GUI and restarting it every 
hour - if you don't see memory usage climbing it is your application.

If not, I suggest you try running X under valgrind - it should work ok 
with vesafb.

                       best

                          Vladimir Dergachev

>
> We are using "vesa" driver since "savage" creates flickering on the
> screen. I really would like to know if there is any way to check which
> part of X makes a memory leak...
>
> One of the things that I also need to address is that the X screen
> blanks after some time (20 min or so) even though DPMS is disabled
> (not enabled anywhere in Xorg). How do I explicitly disable DPMS
> blanking the screen?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Sincerely,
> Sergei
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