On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 17:09:19 +0200, Joachim Kruithof wrote: > Problem : xorg memory occupation raises each time I open a window BUT > when the window is closed the memory is still occupied. > Consequence : xorg saturates memory and swap. Computer is non-responsive > and I cannot do anything but hard reboot. > > When I close matlab the memory consumption of xorg gets back to normal. > This is probably a matlab bug. X doesn't do memory management for the clients, so if matlab stores pixmaps on the server when it creates windows, but doesn't tell X to free the pixmaps when you close the windows, the memory allocated on behalf of matlab by the server isn't freed.
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