Why does the Xorg server reset the output when last client disconnects?

[Stuart Kreitman]

heh heh, /I/ never said that memory leaks are things of the past.
I use firefox with lots of tabs and it regularly bloats out.

Stuart K

Joel Feiner wrote:
> Memory leaks are NOT a thing of the past.  I have a serious one right 
> now, where using Firefox and visiting pages with a lot of images 
> causes the X server to leak a huge amount of heap memory, to the point 
> that it uses up approximately 800 MB of my 1 gig of RAM and I have to 
> restart the X server frequently.  There are other leaks that are 
> slower, but they're still there. 
>
> On 5/2/07, *Barry Scott* <barry.scott at onelan.co.uk 
> <mailto:barry.scott at onelan.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>     Stuart Kreitman wrote:
>     > Barry Scott wrote:
>     >> Michel Dänzer wrote:
>     >>> On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 10:58 +0100, Barry Scott wrote:
>     >>>
>     >>>> I'm wondering if it is reasonable to prevent the server from
>     doing
>     >>>> the reset
>     >>>> when the last client disconnects?
>     >>>>
>     >>>
>     >>> Try it for yourself:
>     >>>
>     >>> Xorg -noreset
>     >>>
>     >>>
>     >> Thanks I've added to my X service startup.
>     >>
>     >> But I'd still like to know why the reset is there at all?
>     >>
>     > 21 years ago, it was effective in covering up memory leaks and
>     other
>     > crud giving the
>     > appearance of great uptime.
>     >
>     > Stuart K
>     >
>     I suspected something like this. I'll sleep happy that -noreset is
>     safe
>     to use.
>
>     Is there any reason why Xorg should not have noreset as the
>     default now that
>     the memory leaks etc are a thing of the past?
>
>     Barry
>
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