Konstantin, Interesting. So, this appears to be a new memory leak that has nothing to do with rootless mode.
At this point I think we will need suggestions from others as to how we can find the source of this memory leak. There are not too many calls in the Windows-specific portion of XWin.exe that could result in continual memory leaks like this. However, I hope that the bug is in the Windows-specific portion of XWin.exe and not in either the rest of the XWin.exe code or in cygwin1.dll. Finding a memory leak in either of those would be tedious. Anybody got any suggestions? Harold -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@;cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Konstantin N. Kudin Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 8:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: XFree leaking memory? Harold I do not think I am using "-rootless" since I am running the standard *.bat file supplied with XFree and have a separate workspace for X. So this leak appears to be a separate issue. Is there a way to generate memory usage statistics for X? Konstantin On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, it was written: > Konstantin, > > Are you using the ``-rootless'' command-line parameter? If so, the > developer of that feature mentioned that there was a memory leak and > that he was working on fixing it. If not, then we might need to look > into your problem as a previously unknown problem. > > Harold > > Konstantin N. Kudin wrote: > > > Hi all > > > > I am using the cygwin + xfree combination for my X server. > >I run the program for days on a W2k laptop and put the machine on stand by > >every night. W2k and xfree are restarted quite infrequently (once every > >2-4 weeks). > > I have noticed in Task Manager that XWin process slowly but surely grows > >in size adding about 2Mb every day. It starts from 13 Mb but over the > >course of few days may become as large as 150 Mb (I have seen that). I > >tried to update XFree to the latest version a couple of weeks ago yet it > >did not stop growing in size. > > I mostly run fvwm and 2-3 xterms. I also occasionally display xterms and > >other things from other machines. > > I am curious if the developers are aware of/working on this issue? > > I could provide more details if needed/technically possible. > > > > Sincerely, > > Konstantin > > >
