On Tuesday 26 June 2001 22:10, Jens Benecke wrote: > <OT> > > Are you also suspecting the current (1.0-1251) drivers to have a memory > hole? My XFree86 process eats about 250MB of virtual memory, that's fifteen > times as much as the ATI (gatos) driver on my laptop needs. And this > requirement grows over time, I can't let X run for >3 days because then my > VM will be all used up (192MB RAM + 250MB swap) > </OT>
top reports 193MB for Xfree86 for me (including 32MB Framebuffer + IO space) seems still a bit much, but i didn't notice any growth in mem usage so far. but, if you have an app with an memleak, it's not necessarily the X driver: if a program allocates a shared pixmap the space gets accounted for X, although it belongs to the program. just to come back on topic: 8-) i read a bugreport on the kde-develop archives, that a recent build of kde2.2 cvs has/had a memleak in the display of desktop background pictures which resulted in growth of Xfree86.. maybe its something like that. Jens -- No electrons were harmed during the creation of this message
