On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Mark Vojkovich] > > When I see these sort of requests I usually feel pretty comfortable > > dismissing them as application resource leaks. > > Is it possible for dead applications to "use" resources in the X > server? I mean, if a web browser allocate several resources in the X > server (shared memory, pixmaps, fonts, I do not know what types of > resources are available for allication), and they die, is all these > resources released in the server?
Server-side resources are released when the connection between the server and client is severed. Only apps that stick around an leak cause problems. You can check the resource usage with: http://www.xfree86.org/~mvojkovi/restest.c Be careful running it though. It grabs the server and dumps data to stdout, which means there's a deadlock situation if you run it from within X without redirecting the output. So either run it remotely or redirect to a file "restest >& resout". Mark. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
