On Wednesday 12 June 2002 12:19, Chris Howells wrote: > Hi, > > On Tuesday 04 June 2002 8:27 pm, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > I am using Debian GNU/Linux with KDE 2.2.2 and XFree 4.1, and I > > experience what could be call a memory leak. Here is an extract of the > > top command after running my computer under X one day. > > > > PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND > > 1141 root 5 -10 425M 169M 3996 S < 0.0 33.5 2:56 XFree86 > > > > On startup, the size of XFree86 is 278Mb, and it grows up to 2 Gb (in > > about 3 days), and then crashes. > > Are you running something like XPlanet as a desktop background? I spoke > to David Faure the maintainer of KDesktop about this problem before, and > he thought that it was a memory leak in XFree86 4.1, fixed in 4.2.
It is a XFree-bug, because xsetroot -bitmap with no windowmanager causes the same problem. cheers, Carsten. -- | THE K Desktop Environment: | My very own little site: | | http://www.kde.org | http://www.wolffcarsten.de | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
