X uses too much memory

[Leo]

----- Bernardo Innocenti (2007-06-05) wrote:-----

> Leo wrote:
>
>>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>>  9597 root      15   0  791m 576m 9656 S  1.7 58.1  16:23.92 Xorg
>
> Is it just after starting the server, with no
> clients loaded?
>
> Please note that X allocates resources as requested by
> clients.  And XSHM mappings gets accounted to the
> server too.
>
> Use xrestop to find out more details.  Firefox is
> one of the worst offenders.

I use xrestop and find that fvwm is using a huge amount of memory. Looks
like a memory leak. I have reported to FVWM list.

Thank you all for helping.

Best,
-- 
Leo <sdl.web AT gmail.com>                         (GPG Key: 9283AA3F)