On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 10:36:02AM -0600, Joshua Shagam wrote: > > How recent are we talking about here? I never noticed any problem with > > phase2v8, but in the past few days I haven't been running much X > > applications > > apart from WindowMaker, xpdf, emacs, xterm and xscreensaver, and it has > > never > > occured to me before to wonder how much any of these rely on shared memory. > > Not at all. Shm is used msotly for things which do a lot of blitting, like > games and Rasterman's over-glitzy under-functional piles of code.
Well, anything which uses MIT-SHM. In fact, if I'm not much mistaken, it's imlib which uses SHM (by default, can be turned off), so some versions of gnome will trigger the memory leaks too. Jules
