On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Nils Faerber wrote:
> Am Di, den 06.01.2004 schrieb tateopfr um 16:26:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Xfree86 4.3.0 i use more and more memory ... until 200MB and more
> >
> > my system :
> >
> > Slackware 9.1 - kernel 2.4.22 - 512MB RAM
> > DUAL ATHLON 2200+ - THUNDER 2468 TYAN
> > 2 HD SCSI
> > VIDEO CARD : ATI RAGE XL WITH 8 MB RAM ( ONBOARD )
> > TOUCH SCREEN ELOTOUCH SERIAL
> >
> > Application developed in perl and perl/tk running 24/24 hour.
> >
> > with : top command I can see the X memory ( RSS ) became always great
> >
> > I download and install the last binary version from :
> > xfree.org/~alanh/drivers/x86
> >
> > but the problem still exists !!
>
> This is not necessarily a problem of the X server in terms of a classic
> memory leak.
> Applications can register data structures within the X server, for their
> own and other use. It is the responsibility of the applications to free
> those structures again after use. If they don't the memory usage of the
> server increases and the server can be falsely guessed to be guilty.
>
> Please check your applications and see which one is causing the memory
> usage to increase!
>
> Common problems are allocated but not freed pixmaps...
I'll also add that while many people have accused XFree86
of leaking memory in the past, I can't think of any cases where
substantial memory leaks have been uncovered. When I see these
sort of requests I usually feel pretty comfortable dismissing
them as application resource leaks.
Mark.
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