On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 01:47, Michel Dänzer wrote: > 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. :)
But these don't happen to boot already on ppc machines right ? > > 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... hmmhhh so far I don't see anything suspicious, but as I had to reboot to be able to work again (programs got killed because of 'out of memory' errors) I will keep an eye on the resources X uses. BTW, is there a way to limit the movement of the mouse cursor, i.e. I want to limit it when I am disconnected from the second head to :0 and then when reconnected allow the full width of :0 and :1 ? Another BTW: I just realized that I am unable to work in any Xinerama setup ... I really need to desktops that are separate from each other, such that I can switch workspaces on one desktop while the other does not change (still shows email etc...) ... So I wonder what the plans in Xfree are... will it be possible to somehow remove the window on :1 and put it on :0 ? Also since the xrandr stuff I wonder whether there are plans about dynamic head addons ... Anyway thanks for the above link, Soeren.
