Bug#673349: Can badly behaved user program cause this? (was Re: Bug#673349: xorg: Xorg consumes loads of memory for no good reason)

2013-03-23 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 11:58:29 -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote: Hi, I am wondering if a badly behaved user program could cause the Xorg server to end up with increasing memory usage that doesn't get released even after the program is closed. The reason I ask is that I am suspecting the

Bug#673349: Can badly behaved user program cause this? (was Re: Bug#673349: xorg: Xorg consumes loads of memory for no good reason)

2013-03-22 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Hi, I am wondering if a badly behaved user program could cause the Xorg server to end up with increasing memory usage that doesn't get released even after the program is closed. The reason I ask is that I am suspecting the issue is gkrellm (see below), but I don't know if that is a reasonable