On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 12:51:01AM -0500, David Fries wrote: > Speaking of memory usage, has anyone thought about looking for some > memory leaks? Ok so I've been a lazy Debian user and I'm not up to > what's in CVS (2.4.7 right now), but here's what I'm seeing (from top). > > PID USER PRI NI SIZE SWAP RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND > 668 david 8 0 15300 8948 6352 3440 S 0.0 1.9 3:35 fvwm2 > after restarting fvwm, same windows etc > 668 david 10 0 2468 0 2468 1348 S 0.1 0.7 3:36 fvwm2 >
Maybe some part the leaks come from the Xlib. I think that the debian package is compiled with --enable-multibyte. There is some memory leaks in XCreateFontSet: each time a font is unloaded ~4kb is lost (this depends on the font, with an utf8 locale and if you use an iso106464-1 font with a big coverage this may be a lot more). For example: - if you delete a window ~4kb is lost (0kb with 2.5.2) - if you change your font and you have 20 windows, ~80kb is lost (only 4kb with 2.5.2). I've recently sent a patch to the XFree developers but no feedback yet ... Note that I do not claim that all the leak come from the Xlib, it is just a possibility. So one question and one query: - Do you do something special regarding the fvwm config (as regularly changing some config parameters) - Can you send me your config file(s) if this is possible. Regards, Olivier -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
