On Sunday 27 October 2002 03:58 pm, you wrote: > Felix Kühling wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I had my Xserver running for about 24 hours straight and noticed that it > > was using about 220M virtual memory. Even after closing all clients and > > logging out the memory usage didn't drop significantly. After I killed > > and restarted gdm it uses "only" about 90M. Does this indicate a memory > > leak in the Xserver or are there other possible explanations for such > > behaviour? > > Memory can only ever increase for processes which do memory allocation > using brk() - there is no way to return such memory to the OS. > > -d
"no way to return such memory to the OS" IMO that constitutes a leak. It is in effect a lost resource where the system is concerned. Why is this so? Nick ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
