potential dapper xorg memory leak

[Vincent Trouilliez]

On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 21:02 +1000, ruscook wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> As you can see, xorg has decided to use 200mega byte of virtual memory
> and evolution and epiphany have also gone mad. At the same time I've
> lost the use of the shift and control keys i.e. they don't modify
> other keys at all but alt still works. - A reboot of X i.e.
> ctrl-alt-backspace fixes this.
> 
> Here's the top output for these apps.
> 
> 8228 root      15   0  200m  22m 5384 S 22.4  2.3  49:11.02 Xorg
> 7523 ruscook   15   0  148m  48m  12m S  3.5  4.8   5:40.23 epiphany
> 7527 ruscook   15   0  234m  72m  16m S  0.2  7.2   0:37.08
> evolution-2.6
> 
> Does anyone else have this problem?


The fact that Xorg or anything uses lots of "virtual" memory is not a
problem, it's a feature (I have similar figures on my machine).
The "virtual" memory is not at all an indication of how much physical
RAM is actually being used. Memory management in Linux is very
complex...

However the fact that you lost the use of the Shift and Control keys is
definitely a bug !
You should file a bug report about it so hopefully it can be fixed in
time.

--
Vince