X is consuming ~100 GiB of RAM(!)

[Ewen Chan]

I could try that.

I will have to do quite a bit of research to figure out how though, but ok.

Thank you.

On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 7:36 PM, Hi-Angel <hiangel999 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6 December 2017 at 02:36, Vladimir Dergachev <volodya at mindspring.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Also, given the the high usage does not happen outside of gnome session,
> > perhaps this is connected to compositing..
>
> There're 2 mails which didn't get yet into the ML because they contain
> a screenshot, and mailman complained about a suspiciously big size,
> and sent them to moderation. The TL;DR is that Xorg takes 100GB,
> however xresttop shows only a few dozens of MBs. Per my understanding
> this means that Xorg does not hold a memory allocated for some client,
> but rather have an actual memory leak. So I recommended trying latest
> Xorg, and reporting a bug if it doesn't help.
>
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