Xorg: xserver using _a lot_ memory
Andrew Haley
aph at redhat.com
Fri Jan 16 13:13:54 UTC 2009
Christoph Höger wrote:
> I am seeing this since a while, Xorg really sucks somewhere in memory
> management.
>
> 16840 root 20 0 577m 250m 11m S 3.7 12.6 22:10.17 Xorg
>
> xrestop:
>
> 2200000 17 2 1 26 1013 6350K 25K 6375K ?
> 4e00000 222 514 1 452 460 4102K 29K 4132K 18030
> 2000000 198 61 1 31 88 1510K 9K 1519K 17188
> 1c00000 38 57 1 12 43 1334K 4K 1338K 17184
> 0000000 2 0 2 0 79 1333K 3K 1337K ?
> 3a00000 0 0 0 1 0 1333K 0B 1333K ?
> 1a00000 32 39 0 18 81 104K 3K 108K 17295
> 5200000 154 85 1 54 112 60K 9K 69K 18033
>
> So where did my memory go? And who of you guys has it? I want it back ;)
>
> (and how do I make a valid bug report out of this? Is there a way to
> attach a tool like valgrind (not at that debug-level), to see where xorg
> looses it's memory?)
X caches memory on behalf of its clients. Kill them, one by one, and you'll
probably find where the memory is going.
Andrew.
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