<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 at 17:48, Tom <<a href="mailto:xorg@zq3q.org" target="_blank">xorg@zq3q.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">After a week or two Xorg grows -- last time to about 3.6GB. How may I restart <br>
Xorg with out rebooting, or disturbing my current session?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You cannot restart the X server without disconnecting the running X11 clients, i.e. killing your session.</div><div><br></div><div>But X11 resources are allocated by the Xserver on behalf of the clients.</div><div><br></div><div>Have you checked if it's not just an X11 client allocating (i.e. leaking) resources?</div><div><br></div><div>The command "xrestop" should give you an indication of how much of resources each X11 client has allocated.</div><div><br></div><div>If that's the case, killing/restarting just that client would suffice…</div><div><br></div><div>HTH</div><div>Cheers</div><div>O.</div><div></div></div></div>