X server memory footprint growing continuously and monotonically over time

[Omari Stephens]

Daniel Stone wrote:
::snip? SNIP!::
> Hi,
> Is this still occurring with xorg-server 1.4.x?

Yes.  To quote my earlier mail,

 > I have the following package versions:
 > $dpkg -l '*xorg*' | grep ^ii
 > ii  xserver-xorg                     1:7.3+2
 > ii  xserver-xorg-core                2:1.4-3
 > ii  xserver-xorg-input-kbd           1:1.2.2-3
 > ii  xserver-xorg-input-mouse         1:1.2.2-6
 > ii  xserver-xorg-video-nv            1:2.1.5-1
 >
 > $dpkg -l *libc6* | grep ^ii
 > ii  libc6                            2.6.1-5
 > ii  libc6-dev                        2.6.1-5
 > ii  libc6-i386                       2.6.1-5
 >
 > A more complete list (a manually-filtered version of `dpkg -l '*x*' | grep ^ii`)
 > is up at [5].  General computer info is at [6], [7], and [8].
 >
 > Any help would be appreciated -- I have 2GB of memory because I expected MATLAB
 > and friends to eat it up, not X.
 >
 > --xsdg
 >
 > [1] http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/forum/2003-April/003370.html
 > [2] http://people.csail.mit.edu/xsdg/x-mem/2495-maps
 > [3] http://people.csail.mit.edu/xsdg/x-mem/xorg.conf
 > [4] http://people.csail.mit.edu/xsdg/x-mem/Xorg.0.log
 > [5] http://people.csail.mit.edu/xsdg/x-mem/pkg-versions
 > [6] http://people.csail.mit.edu/xsdg/x-mem/cpuinfo
 > [7] http://people.csail.mit.edu/xsdg/x-mem/meminfo
 > [8] http://people.csail.mit.edu/xsdg/x-mem/vmstat

--xsdg