Xorg 7.0-rc1 and EXA (radeon 9200)
Pierre Ossman
drzeus-list at drzeus.cx
Mon Oct 31 01:30:53 PST 2005
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 08:33:55 +0100 Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list at drzeus.cx>
> babbled:
>
>
>> It would seem that something leaks memory though. If I keep mapping and
>> unmapping windows I gradually see the pixmap memory rising. When I hit
>> the size of my graphics card (64 MB) things deteriorate very quickly.
>> Who's the most likely culprit? X or xcompmgr? The latter seems more
>> likely since the pixmaps are freed once I kill xcompmgr.
>>
>
> it could also just be vram fragmentation - but i woudl look at xcompmgr first.
> but it could be xcomposite itself too. have u tried xrestop to see who is
> allocating all the pixmaps? (or who xresources thinks they belong to) ?
>
>
xrestop just says unknown:
4600000 0 1 0 49 850 42342K 19K 42362K ? <unknown>
But when it starts to go downhill xcompmgr start emitting errors:
error 3 request 20 minor 0 serial 67186
error 3 request 2 minor 0 serial 67199
error 3 request 20 minor 0 serial 67200
error 3 request 20 minor 0 serial 68205
error 3 request 15 minor 0 serial 68206
error 3 request 2 minor 0 serial 68207
error 3 request 20 minor 0 serial 68208
error 3 request 2 minor 0 serial 68221
error 3 request 20 minor 0 serial 68222
Rgds
Pierre
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