On Fri Sep 19, 2003 at 10:40:47PM -0400, Greg Meyer wrote: > Ever since I updated my XFree packages last week, I have been seeing X use > massive amounts of memory and I am concerned there may be a memory leak or > something. > > Here is some output from top. See how X is using 212M. Way more than it used > to. Has anybody else experienced anything like this? > > top - 22:39:01 up 1 day, 37 min, 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.06, 0.01 > Tasks: 83 total, 1 running, 82 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > Cpu(s): 0.3% user, 0.7% system, 0.0% nice, 99.0% idle > Mem: 511360k total, 490604k used, 20756k free, 22984k buffers > Swap: 306896k total, 3812k used, 303084k free, 129584k cached > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ Command > 15354 greg 11 0 32176 31m 16m S 0.0 6.3 0:02.46 kmail > 15428 greg 11 0 28716 28m 11m S 0.0 5.6 0:02.00 opera > 15430 greg 8 0 28716 28m 11m S 0.0 5.6 0:00.00 opera > 1522 root 5 -10 212m 19m 4652 S 0.0 4.0 2:31.82 X > 15376 greg 9 0 17284 16m 15m S 0.0 3.4 0:00.09 kdeinit > 14467 greg 15 0 16768 16m 1464 S 0.3 3.3 0:31.20 Xvnc > 3948 root 8 0 15472 15m 9812 S 0.0 3.0 0:00.32 kdm_greet > 15365 greg 9 0 15312 14m 13m S 0.0 3.0 0:00.15 kdeinit
For which version? 9.1? or 9.0? 9.0 shouldn't have anything funny in there at all... that was just some minor changes to fix the font issues. The 9.1 packages had some fixes due to some ATI cards... what kind of video card do you have? -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ Online Security Resource Book; http://linsec.ca/ "lynx -source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import" {FE6F2AFD : 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD}
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