Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> So in your opinion using X as a cache for 500 MB of pixmaps is dumb. I
>> tend to agree, but it is reasonable to expect that when the app closes
>> and the pixmaps are freed, all that memory is returned to the OS?
>
> Not really. Most applications just
Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Why should it be a KDE bug if the X server is leaking memory? I used to
>
> The KDE app told X to cache all those pixmaps. X is just doing what it
> was asked to. The alternative would be that it decided to kill off that
> client for being dumb.
So in your
Lubos Lunak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tuesday 09 of December 2008, Óscar Fuentes wrote:
>> After observing how X used 1.3 GB of RAM, some investigation revealed
>> that certain application (Okular, a document viewer,
>> http://okular.kde.org) was causing thi
After observing how X used 1.3 GB of RAM, some investigation revealed
that certain application (Okular, a document viewer,
http://okular.kde.org) was causing this memory consumption. It is
creating lots of pixmaps as a way for caching document pages. Opening a
pdf file an scrolling through its page
