Xorg: heap leaking

[Pavel Troller]

Hi!
> On Sat, 6 Jan 2007 06:53:59 +0100 Pavel Troller <patrol at sinus.cz> babbled:
> 
> > Hi!
> >   There is definitely a large memory leak somewhere in the current X. Default
> > branch leaks as well as xserver-1.2-branch.
> 
> it could be a leak in a kde component or app too- try xrestop to see. rememebr
> all graphics resources (windows, pixmaps etc.) are owned by x but are allocated
> on request of an x client (an application or desktop component) and thus it may
> not be a leak in x at all - simply thats where most of the memory is being
> allocated. the only way you can really tell is xrestop and/org killing ALL x
> clients (even then it may create resources with retained mode and thus x will
> keep the resources even if the client exists)

Thanks for your expertise!
  But I think that this is not our case.
  1) Look at my info below: >>> It doesn't happen with (Xorg) 6.9.0. <<<
  2) I tried xrestop: Logged into KDE, started it from console, logged out,
and immediately before it was killed, it reported

xrestop - Display: localhost:0
          Monitoring 9 clients. XErrors: 0
          Pixmaps:      70K total, Other:      18K total, All:      88K total

  While /proc/<n>/maps shows

007a8000-0771a000 rw-p 007a8000 00:00 0                                  [heap]

BTW it's the same process which I reported as "newly started" in my first
post, and it had

007a8000-02682000 rw-p 007a8000 00:00 0                                  [heap]

sou you can see how much memory it consumed since that time.
                                WIth regards, Pavel Troller

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