Severe memory leaks make X.org unuseable

[Robert C. Noland III]

On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 06:18 -0800, milnser43200 at yahoo.com wrote:
> 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.

We only have kernel support for dtrace right now, userland support isn't
there yet.

robert.

> 
> --- 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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