> Ok , this soudnds rather aggrevating indeed. > could you think through what programs you are using on a regular basis, > since it probably is some program leaking pixmaps into X and failing to > reclaim them.
well, on a regular basis its especially gaim and sylpheed-claws. both apps in different versions (same problem for a couple of months now and many newer (partly cvs-) updates of these apps. > if you use gtk+ with pixbuf based graphics this could be a cause, to fix uhm... i think both of the mentioned apps use them, dont they? > if this is the case would be to change theme (to something simple. > thinice, cleanice, default) and kill all programs that are loading gtk+. well, i use too many gtk+ apps, since i prefer gtk for my x apps. thats the problem: theres no way for me to check if its gtk itself, since i cannot "work" that long time i would need to check for sure. btw: i recently changed from cleanice to geramik, both same error. > Otherwise I'd suggest playing some with either memprof or valgrind, both > will take quite some effort though, but should generally prove the > results fairly well once you've got a clue on what application is > sucking the RAM. well, i dont know 'em... is it "easy" (transparent) to use? i'm a geek, but not in every sense ;) > If its X by itself (clean Xsession + term left for a day or five) then > I'd be really curious. i work with this problem many days, since i dont want to restart x that often. but it takes only few hours til this problem occurs again. (yes, i took it too long, almost everybody has had windows years before *lol*) > gaim could well be a culprit since it loads a lot of logs and stuff in > RAM (connection states) and isn't the nicest of all apps I've ever seen. well... i already noticed that. it has MANY problems i would like not to have... but i need a multi-protocol-messenger. and the only other i know is kopete. but kopete == kde :-( i dont like programs that start something like "desktopbla-start" and eats memory for a whole second desktop *lol* well, and i also dont know if kopete is that good... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
