On 02/03/2013 12:47 AM, Maseood Raisi wrote:
I use xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.12.4-2.fc17.x86_64 with priority Nvidia
Driver with KDM-Kwin-KDE ...
I don't know which one has memory leak but plasma-desktop and kwin and
kdm use normal memory (I mean after working for some days with my
system, the memory usage of them is the same or very little change)
but the X process collect my ram and won't get it back, if I continue to
use my system, it can reach 700 MiB or even going over GiB ...
I don't know wich one have memory leak (if this is realy a leak)
can anyone help?
what is this in line 6 of pmap output? (it's growing as I work with my
system and it won't release the memory)
0000000001944000 164852K rw--- [ anon ]
here is X memory usage information:
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top output:
1114 root 20 0 370m 245m 77m R 80.4 6.6 24:09.32 X
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xrestop output:
xrestop - Display: localhost:0
Monitoring 38 clients. XErrors: 0
Pixmaps: 39231K total, Other: 137K total, All: 39368K
total
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pmap 1114 output:
1114: /usr/bin/X :0 vt1 -background none -nolisten tcp -auth
/var/run/kdm/A:0-TNko1a
0000000000400000 1808K r-x-- /usr/bin/Xorg
00000000007c3000 12K r---- /usr/bin/Xorg
00000000007c6000 44K rw--- /usr/bin/Xorg
00000000007d1000 64K rw--- [ anon ]
00000000009d0000 44K rw--- /usr/bin/Xorg
0000000001944000 164852K rw--- [ anon ]
Your pixmaps usage does not seem extremely high, but I would like to point
you to this problem I have discovered with xorg and plasma-desktop:
http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2012-November/034555.html
so you can experiment a bit.
(BTW, my patch has been ignored until now)
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Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it