This is just a probe to see if anyone else is having problems with
Xorg eating memory.
Every once in a while my desktop machine becomes unresponsive and top shows
that Xorg is using all my memory.
I was out of town and ssh'ing into my machine every day or so and it
was fine, except today I was running mutt on that machine and noticed
mutt got killed a few times -- and again Xorg was consuming all memory,
so I killed it.[1]
I see this bug:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=326956
And I do have a background script that loads a new root window image
every five minutes. But, I don't normally notice that the memory
increases that much. The machine (and Xorg) have been running for
about two months, so it's odd that all of the sudden it eats memory.
I just loaded an image 1000 times (using display -window root
test.jpg) and watched top, but no growth in memory. This is what it
is like after that, which is normal:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
5407 root 5 -10 105m 36m 73m S 1.3 4.1 2:21.97 Xorg
So it doesn't seem like it's my background image problem.
Any other ideas what might be the problem?
ii xserver-xorg 7.1.0-11
the X.Org X server
ii xserver-xorg-core 1.1.1-15
X.Org X server -- core server
[1] By the way, when I remotely kill xorg my monitors no longer are
controlled by dpms -- so they power on. (when I came home my monitors
were indeed no longer in sleep mode.) Can I remotely run startx or is
there a utility to remotely force my monitors to sleep mode when not
running the xserver?
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Bill Moseley
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