Troubleshooting server memory leaks
Ross Vandegrift
ross at kallisti.us
Wed Nov 25 18:42:01 PST 2009
Hi everyone,
I've noticed a slow memory leak which causes Xorg to burn through all
the memory on my workstation. After leaving it run approximately 30
hours, the RSS is at 55.6% of 2GiB. I have returned to an OOMed box
that I had to powercycle. Last night, I came back to an RSS of ~80%
of 2GiB, all of my swap used, but was able to kill and restart Xorg in
time. xrestop show usage of about 30MiB.
There is a potential match in the Debian BTS [1], but there is no
solution, or even a guess.
I don't know much else about troubleshooting memory leaks in the X
server. What should I look at next?
This is Xorg 7.4, X server 1.6.5, nv driver, no compositing manager,
no DRI. System is Debian testing/unstable.
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=531071
--
Ross Vandegrift
ross at kallisti.us
"If the fight gets hot, the songs get hotter. If the going gets tough,
the songs get tougher."
--Woody Guthrie
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