On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 15:12:05 +0200 Spider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm prone to suspect that the case is unreleased pixmaps in gaim, which > means that gaim allocates memory from the X server with each time it > shows a flashy picture, but at the end of the process it doesn't > -release- theese from the X server, which means that X has to keep > holding them in case another app will want to use it. > > <snip>
Same problems here, sure it's gaim, sure sylpheed-claws releases it's memory without problems, but, when you have all your gtk+ apps killed, why the memory isn't released?? I don't have the big problem like "a_k_b <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>", I mean, not hours, but every 2 days I have to restart X. And btw, sometimes, when I kill gaim, and the RAM and the swap are at almost 99%, the "release" of the memory killed my linux box, it becomes unstable. All I can do after that, is a sysrq+s/u/b. This only happens with these kernels: gentoo and gaming sources (I like to test kernels/patches), and never happened with Wolk or Vanilla or 2.6. I'm using the last wolk as my stable kernel without problems. My computer here: Pentium III 600Mhz 256Mb Ram, 300Mb Swap, MB: ASUS P2B. And for other memory consuming *thing* using XMMS with the Esound output and ALSA, never get's (all the apps) over 10Mb of memory. My gtk themes: 2.0: "H2O-Gtk2-Saphire" 1.2: "Gentoo". Salu2 Javier. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
