I can confirm the memory leak of Xorg. I have the same behavior that it is described here: http://suseforums.net/index.php?showtopic=35760
"I was monitoring the processes with conky, top, and free. I was working without beryl, emerald and kiba-dock and the situation is the same, after a few minutes the use of RAM increase slowly, but something strange happens, conky shows 340 of 940 MB of RAM used, while free -m shows 820 of 940 MB used. The common process in gnome are running, no beryl, kiba-dock or emerald are running, only firefox, wine and Xorg. I'm thinking that X org 7.2 have some weird." Lot of other users are mentioning the problem many months now: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=601174 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=440038&page=5 http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=3663062&postcount=222 It's not distro specific: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-537634-postdays-0-postorder-asc- highlight-xorg+memory+leak-start-100.html There is also a bugreport opened in freedesktop.org bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14639 Personally, I noticed the problem since I 've upgraded my Kubuntu Gutsy to the patched KDE 3.5.8 (for the xembed issue of flash) and then to KDE 3.5.9 I 've even upgraded to Hardy's 2.6.24 kernel, but no use. I 've tried also by closing most of the common applications/services I use daily (like amarok, kopete, superkaramba, kmail, etc.), but nothing changed. The problem is the same either when using firefox or konqueror. With konqueror things are worse (maybe due to this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdebase/+bug/189525 ). But from what I understand that has nothing to do with DEs, WMs and drivers... Look at these: cat /proc/7658/status Name: Xorg State: S (sleeping) SleepAVG: 98% Tgid: 7658 Pid: 7658 PPid: 7647 TracerPid: 0 Uid: 0 0 0 0 Gid: 0 0 0 0 FDSize: 128 Groups: VmPeak: 505876 kB VmSize: 461808 kB VmLck: 168 kB VmHWM: 403236 kB VmRSS: 398104 kB VmData: 390448 kB VmStk: 84 kB VmExe: 1824 kB VmLib: 14536 kB VmPTE: 1076 kB Threads: 1 SigQ: 0/16372 SigPnd: 0000000000000000 ShdPnd: 0000000000000000 SigBlk: 0000000000000000 SigIgn: 0000000000001000 SigCgt: 0000000051806ecb CapInh: 0000000000000000 CapPrm: 00000000fffffeff CapEff: 00000000fffffeff Cpus_allowed: 03 Mems_allowed: 00000000,00000001 ps aux | grep /usr/bin/X root 7658 16.8 19.3 461808 398104 tty7 SLs+ Mar10 150:03 /usr/bin/X -br -nolisten tcp :0 vt7 -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-6h6to4 uptime 14:10:11 up 04:53, 1 user, load average: 2.90, 2.29, 1.32 free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2062176 2046412 15764 0 6060 902232 -/+ buffers/cache: 1138120 924056 Swap: 3148700 1066884 2081816 And that is nothing... I think now you have enough info to change the status of this bug to "confirmed". -- X server has huge memory leaks https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/186354 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
