On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 16:17 -0500, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > 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.
Try using some other theme, gtk-qt-engine is known to cause trouble now and then. The reason why X is eating loads of memory all the time is because your theme engine could preload pixmaps into X and never free them again. If this goes on for a long while, you will run out of free memory some day and X will die. This is just one theory, but it's easy to check: use a different theme engine like mist or simple. _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
