Severe memory leaks make X.org unuseable

[milnser43200 at yahoo.com]

Earlier on freebsd 7.0 pmap back in Nov. was not available and would not compile right. But now it seems to have compiled on 7.1 and is working ok. It reports memory allocations but does not report line numbers. I am going to paste a dump of what it provides of the X.org process here. I have also looked into valgrind and dtrace but I cannot get those to work at all.

--- On Thu, 2/19/09, Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk at voicenet.com> wrote:

> From: Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk at voicenet.com>
> Subject: Re: Severe memory leaks make X.org unuseable
> To: "John Tapsell" <johnflux at gmail.com>
> Cc: "XORG" <xorg at lists.freedesktop.org>
> Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009, 4:33 AM
> On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:18:39 +0000
> John Tapsell <johnflux at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > 2009/2/19 Maciej Grela <maciej.grela at gmail.com>:
> > > 2009/2/19 milnser43200 at yahoo.com
> <milnser43200 at yahoo.com>:
> > >> There are very serious and severe memory
> leaks under X.org with the savage driver. I am on FreeBSD.
> This is a very serious problem as it consumes all system
> memory adn causes other applications to crash. It is totally
> unuseable and intolerable and is simply shoddy and sloppy
> programming. I know for a fact XFree86 did not leak memory
> like this, XFree86 started at about 25 MB and stayed there.
> What is going on here? Every since the X.org project was
> started the quality of X distribution has plummeted
> drastically.
> > >>
> > >
> > > Post some details (hardware ? xorg version ?
> driver version ? logs ?)
> > > because there isn't enough information in
> your post to even start
> > > investigating the issue.
> > 
> > From his previous posts[1], it looks like he's
> talking about ProSavage
> > DDR on Freebsd.  I attempted to try to help by getting
> him to run
> > pmap, but it seems freebsd doesn't have pmap.
> 
> I have no idea if it's the same thing you are referring
> to, but there
> is pmap port in sysutils/pmap on FreeBSD.  It does not have
> a -d
> option, but 'pmap pidofxorg' gives me:
> 
> 2780:	/usr/local/bin/X
> Address   Kbytes     RSS  Shared    Priv Mode  Mapped File
> 08048000    1484    1308       -    1308 r-x  
> /usr/local/bin/Xorg
> 081BB000      24      24       -      24 rw-  
> /usr/local/bin/Xorg
> 081C1000     148     148       -     148 rw-     [ anon ]
> 081E6000     104       4       -     104 rwx     [ anon ]
> 281BB000     148     104     148       - r-x  
> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1
> 281E0000       8       8       -       8 rw-  
> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1
> <snip>
> 
> Adam
> 
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