On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 06:52, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > > I just realized that the daily updatedb run caused this 1G Ti 15" > powerbook to swap (with just some apps open under X).
BTW, 2.6 kernels handle this much better than 2.4 kernels. :) > And then I saw that XFree is taking 1.5G virtual memory and 800M Res :-( > > It seems to be growing when one uses 2 displays ... now (after 4 days > uptime ) it is already at 439/272m ... can one somehow find out what > leaks ? One thing to keep in mind is that the X server can use resources on behalf of clients, so the leak(s) could actually be in the clients. The restest utility available from http://www.xfree86.org/~mvojkovi/ (at the very bottom) shows those resources, beware that running it in an X terminal may cause a deadlock unless you redirect the output. That being said, I seem to remember other reports about the server leaking with multihead... -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
