Known memory leaks in Xorg 6.8.1?

Matthew Allum mallum at gmail.com
Wed Dec 15 01:21:07 PST 2004


Hi;

Have you tried running xrestop [1] against you app to see if its
leaking resources into the server ? ( Note: XRes ext gets pixmap
values slightly wrong [2] but you'll be able to see at least if a leak
is happening )

  -- Matthew

[1] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fxrestop
[2] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2029

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 15:02:41 -0500, Sergei Mutovkin <msergei at gmail.com> 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.
> 
> 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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