X server occupying >1GB of memory
Omari Stephens
xsdg at mit.edu
Tue Oct 30 23:23:12 PDT 2007
Hi all. I'm experiencing what I believe is a torrential memory leak in Debian
sid's packaged version of 7.3.
Running the script at [1] gives me the following numbers:
PID VSZ DEVMAP LIBMAP ALLOC RSS CMDLINE
2494 10028 0 9988 40 220 xinit /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc --
/etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc -auth /tmp/serverauth.GrOiPb2484
2495 1416932 278848 1137940 144 768972 /usr/bin/X11/X -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp
Looking at /proc/2495/maps, as the page suggests, gives me the following for
memory allocated on the heap, of note (the entire file is up at [2])
007be000-4098a000 rw-p 007be000 00:00 0 [heap]
Note, that this is enormous (the range covers 1075625984 bytes) and a reasonable
measurement, given how much memory X seems to be using. I'll also note that I
was watching this two days ago, and got the range 007be000-36df6000, which is
912490496 bytes. So X packed on 170 megs in 2 days. Though I don't exactly
remember the reported memory usage 2 days ago, I believe this difference matches
the difference in VSZ between 2-days-ago and tonight (definitely on the order of
100 megs).
xrestop has the following to say:
Pixmaps: 42551K total, Other: 207K total, All: 42758K total
I should note that this machine is an AMD Athlon-64 X2 running in 64-bit mode.
I do actively use nspluginwrapper to use the (32-bit only) Flash plugin that
Adobe provides for Firefox, but don't run any other 32-bit code.
My xorg.conf is up at [3] and my Xorg.0.log (the active log for this server) is
at [4]. I'll try to not restart X to aid debugging, but my system is growing
less and less usable by the day.
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
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