On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 11:48 AM Tom <x...@zq3q.org> wrote: > > After a week or two Xorg grows -- last time to about 3.6GB. How may I restart > Xorg with out rebooting, or disturbing my current session? > > -- > thanks, > Tom > > -- > systemctl restart display-manager # works, but I have to restart all my > graphical tools
The problem here might be due to those same X clients and tools being sloppy. Many years ago I discovered that the input method server was creating a new atom for every new input method client. It never reuses atoms of disconnected clients. Once created, the server keeps these atoms forever, until the server is restarted. That's what X11 specifies. I reported this, but they were not interested in fixing their logic. Most high level widget toolkits implement an interface to the input method server for you. They connect to the IM server when the application starts. Grand total: each X client you start ends up with a new atom getting created. It's unlikely that this would amount to multiple gigabytes, over a course of a week, but every little bit, like that, contributes to the memory footprint of the X server. _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
