Troubleshooting server memory leaks

Dennis J. dennisml at conversis.de
Sat Nov 28 11:28:30 PST 2009


On 11/28/2009 04:38 PM, Ross Vandegrift wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 04:37:54PM -0600, Pat Kane wrote:
>> Does xrestop show anything interesting?
>>
>> I'd do a 'xrestop -b -m1'  before and after your testing and then
>> compare the two outputs.
>
> Nothing terribly interesting.  It does look like Vuze's pixmap usage
> grows over time, but only to the tune of 13MiB of data - not nearly
> enough to account for 950MiB of X server RSS!

Same here. After a long-running session I can close all applications yet X 
still swallows almost 2gb of ram. Xrestop shows a usage of less than 30mb 
at that moment.

Regards,
   Dennis



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