memory leak in X server

[Dennis Jacobfeuerborn]

Tomasz Kłoczko wrote:
> Dnia 03-09-2006, nie o godzinie 20:40 +0200, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
> napisał(a):
>> Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> Tomasz Kłoczko <kloczek at zie.pg.gda.pl> wrote:
>>>
>>>> # ps auxw | grep Xorg
>>>> root     14318 21.3 26.8 1253392 556080 tty7   Ss+  Aug29
>>>> 1292:34 /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -audit 0 -auth /var/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp
>>>> vt7
>>> I've seen something like that with FC6-to-be before, but not during the
>>> last 10 days or so.
>> I reported something similar on the fedora-test-list:
>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2006-August/msg00404.html
>>
>> Recent updates seem to have fixed this though.
> 
> Yesterday I perform upgrade and after ~30h now I have:
> 
>  3442 root      15   0 1113m 948m  11m S   20 46.8 206:30.92 Xorg 
> 
> but in this probably I found cause. xrestop shows:
> 
> xrestop - Display: localhost:0
>           Monitoring 38 clients. XErrors: 0
>           Pixmaps: 1183805K total, Other:     218K total, All: 1184024K
> total
> res-base Wins  GCs Fnts Pxms Misc   Pxm mem  Other   Total   PID
> Identifier    
> 2a00000   638   47    1 4072  164   1112938K     20K 1112959K  3752 UF -
> Cartoon Archive
> 
> "UF - Cartoon Archive" it is galeon resources. After killing galeon top
> shows:
> 
>  3442 root      19   0  304m 191m  10m R   74  9.4 209:07.55 Xorg
> 
> kloczek
> 
> 

Galeon is Gecko based and Gecko loves to store huge amounts of pixmaps in 
the X server. Whenever you want to measure Xorg memory usage it's a good 
idea to close any instance of Firefox/Seamonkey/Galeon/whatever first.

Regards,
   Dennis