Xorg memory leak

[Charlie Kravetz]

On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 10:14 -0400, golfer wrote:

> On 5/29/06, easydisk <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi there,
> > I think there is a real memory leak with xorg in Ubuntu 6.06
> > Here are 2 examples from a machine running xorg for about 1.5 a 2
> > day's
> 
> I haven't run this long to see this result.  Mine starts out low though:
> 
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>  4607 root      15   0 62896  32m 4448 S  0.3  8.6   1:13.98 Xorg
> 
> >
> > the 'top' command
> >
> > PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> >
> > 8849 root      15   0 1612m 699m 1352 S  3.5 69.3  29:59.43 Xorg
> >
> >
> >
> > PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> >
> > 25742 root      15   0 1438m 620m 3828 S  3.0 61.4  38:15.68 Xorg
> >
> >
> >
> > the 'free -m' command gives:
> >
> > total       used       free     shared    buffers
> > cached
> >
> > Mem:          1010        994         15          0         45
> > 323
> >
> > and for swap:
> >
> > Swap:          964          862        102
> >
> > Even after running xorg for one night (12 hours) without no big
> > application running (only dekstop manager KDE, amsn and xmms) the
> > memory usage is growing to 450 Mbyte !
> >
> > Xorg is becoming slow, stop responing for 4 - 10seconds (even no mouse
> > pointer)
> >
> 
> I've thought so too, but didn't really have anything to compare
> against, since I've been running dapper for months.  I've just assumed
> it was the latest kde/gnome.
> 
> > And I think I'm nog the only one with the problem, see bugs: 36348
> > 39825
> >
> > Is it possible to run xorg 6.90 (from ubuntu 5.10) instead of 7.0 from
> > ubuntu 6.06?
> 
> not likely as there are too many dependecies.  hopefully, it'll be fixed.
> 
> regards,
> 

If this is an issue, maybe you should file a bug report on it?

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-artwork/+filebug

    -Charlie
Don't let anyone steal your dream!

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