Severe memory leaks make X.org unuseable

[milnser43200 at yahoo.com]

The resource usage has not changed much after it has been running. Though you are right, I think you are saying that the two 131 mb allocations are not actually real ram usage, but instead are just mappings of the video hardware address space. So basically that is not space consumed in RAM. This seems to be indicated by top command free read while X server is not running and while is: 
Mem: 221M Active, 33M Inact, 97M Wired, 10M Cache, 56M Buf, 96M Free
Swap: 195M Total, 150M Used, 44M Free, 77% Inuse, 80K In 
   Mem: 234M Active, 26M Inact, 111M Wired, 9000K Cache, 56M Buf, 77M Free
Swap: 195M Total, 148M Used, 46M Free, 76% Inuse

I am sorry about the trouble that this misunderstanding has caused. I am just glad to know that the Xserver is really taking up only 30 mb of ram or so.

--- On Thu, 2/19/09, Adam Jackson <ajax at nwnk.net> wrote:

> From: Adam Jackson <ajax at nwnk.net>
> Subject: Re: Severe memory leaks make X.org unuseable
> To: milnser43200 at yahoo.com
> Cc: xorg at lists.freedesktop.org
> Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009, 6:36 PM
> On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 07:58 -0800, milnser43200 at yahoo.com
> wrote:
> 
> > 28980000  131072       0       -  131072 rwx  
> /dev/mem
> > [...]
> > 30A51000  131072       4       -  131072 rwx  
> /dev/mem
> > [...]
> > Total Kb  277656    9408    6260    7908
> 
> You have what I assume is the card's video memory
> mapped twice.  This is
> a) not real memory usage, and b) well over 99% of your
> server's address
> space.  The remaining 15M is positively svelte by
> comparison.
> 
> It's likely that this is a freshly launched X server? 
> You probably want
> to look at resource and memory usage once it's been
> running a while.
> 
> - ajax
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