Memory leak in Xfbdev

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Fri Oct 26 10:47:48 PDT 2007


Xserver 1.2 (the Xserver included in Xorg 7.2) has a known memory leak
of the entire client connection data buffer every time a client disconnects.

This is fixed in Xserver 1.3 or later, or by applying this patch:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=811675733e97416c990e6dc9c19271b43d96248d

	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Abhinav Duggal wrote:
> I am using Xorg 7.2 release.
> 
> 
> On 10/19/07, *Dodji Seketeli* <dodji at seketeli.org 
> <mailto:dodji at seketeli.org>> wrote:
> 
>     On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:46:02 +0530,
>     "Abhinav Duggal" <abhinavduggal at gmail.com
>     <mailto:abhinavduggal at gmail.com>> wrote :
> 
>      > Hi all,
>      > I am running Xfbdev on ARM9.Over the server after running blackbox I
>      > am running the  following script
>      > while [ 1 ]
>      > do
>      > xcalc &
>      > xeyes &
>      > sleep 5
>      > pkill xcalc
>      > pkill xeyes
>      > done
>      >
>      > I am getting huge memory leak.Here is my log for meminfo.This is for
>      > a very small period of time. Over an hour or so i am getting memory
>      > leak of 7 to 8 MBs.
> 
>     [...]
> 
>     It would be interesting to know the version of xserver you are using.
> 
>     Cheers,
> 
>     --
>     Dodji Seketeli
>     http://www.seketeli.org/dodji
> 
> 
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