I've been having a horrible memory leak problem lately. X winds up hogging more and more of the memory, eating all my RAM, then all my swap space, until finally my desktop (KDE) freezes up. I can recover by ssh'ing in and killing a few apps - enough to free up enough memory for me to cleanly shut down the other apps and log off - but the box doesn't completely recover until I shut down and restart X.
I searched the forums on "memory leak" and there were a few posts that indicated that the problem might be with firefox, or with the GTK QT engine (which I am using; see http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=15859 about halfway down the page). But there weren't many specifics in the posts, and they are somewhat old too. Anyone know what might be going on here and/or how to fix this? This is a pretty horrible state of affairs, as it's happening daily. TIA, DR _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
