Memory leak in xorg-6.8.1?

[Anton Markov]

Hermann Himmelbauer wrote:
> Hi,
> I am using SuSE 9.2 with the contributed xorg-6.8.1-15. When running the new 
> Adobe Reader 7beta, the process "X" starts to eat up all available memory and 
> also the swap space. I have a NVidia Geforce-4600 Graphic card with the 
> driver version "1.0-7174" from the NVidia Web Site.
> 
> "ps" outputs this:
> 
> root      5815  8.7 46.3 726484 359404 ?     SL   07:21  
> 11:23 /usr/X11R6/bin/X
> 
> When opening some .pdf-files the RSS-size increases:
> 
> root      5815  8.7 47.5 726484 368724 ?     SL   07:21  
> 11:33 /usr/X11R6/bin/X
> 
> When heavily working with the Adobe Reader the swap space gets filled up and 
> the machine is getting very slow.
> 
> When closing the Adobe Reader the RSS-size stays roughly the same.
> 
> It seems that also other applications, like Firefox trigger this problem, when 
> surfing a lot, the XOrg memory usage is getting high, although when closing 
> Firefox there is also memory freed - but not all.
> 
> Maybe that there are some bugs in the Adobe Reader/Firefox but to my mind this 
> is also a XOrg problem.
> 
> Are there any known fixes to my problem?
> 
> Best Regards,
> Hermann
> 

It's caused by using a cursor theme with animated cursors  :(

See: <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1043>



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