Memory usage problems with X.org on ProSavage DDR

[milnser43200 at yahoo.com]

No, I took the sample without any applications running except fvwm. There is no significant difference between that and having firefox going.

So it apparently is a memory leak inside X, perhaps a driver.

--- On Sun, 11/9/08, François-Denis Gonthier <neumann at lostwebsite.net> wrote:

> From: François-Denis Gonthier <neumann at lostwebsite.net>
> Subject: Re: Memory usage problems with X.org on ProSavage DDR
> To: milnser43200 at yahoo.com
> Cc: xorg at lists.freedesktop.org
> Date: Sunday, November 9, 2008, 8:24 PM
> "milnser43200 at yahoo.com"
> <milnser43200 at yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> > I am using X.org on a s3 Prosavage video adapter,
> using video driver
> > savage. I have been having significant problems with
> the vast
> > amounts of memory that are being consumed, living very
> little space
> > left for other applications. For instance, here is the
> readout from
> > top that shows what i am talking about: 1 96 0 302M
> 20304K select
> > 24.0H 3.61% Xorg
> >
> > This is really a huge problem has a have a limited
> amount of memory
> > and disk space and because of this massive amount of
> memory
> > consumed, other applications are running out of memory
> and crashing.
> >
> > I know X.org should probably not be using this much
> memory and there
> > is a bug somewhere in the software that is doing this.
> If you need
> > any logs or anything please ask.
> 
> This is lacking a bit of data.
> 
> Do you have GNOME, FireFox, KDE, anything, running when you
> took that
> sample?
> 
> X itself doesn't need much memory.  The applications
> interacting with
> the X server make it allocate more memory.
> 
> So please if you think X is leaking or overconsuming
> memory, bring
> forward more informations.
> 
> F-D