memory leaks in the current Xserver

[Marius Gedminas]

On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 09:41:37AM +0100, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> I'm using Xserver 1.4.1 () that consumes about 190MB of RAM (resident not
> virtual) after running couple of days. xrestop reports that pixmaps consume
> only 7MB RAM. Does it mean that there are some memory leaks?
> 
> I have integrated graphic card with shared memory so it could mean that the
> Intel driver just wastes graphic memory..

Once I had my X server eat 528 megs RSS, while xrestop claimed the
clients were claiming 18 megs.  I restarted compiz and X's memory usage
shrank to 137 megs RSS.  Apparently the memory used by textures or
whatnot is not seen by xrestop.

Marius Gedminas
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