Re: X is consuming ~100 GiB of RAM(!)

2017-12-05 Thread Hi-Angel
The troubleshooting link you provided states that the high memory usage typically belongs to some other application. Sorry, I am just an occasional bystander here, and can't tell much of technical details, but I imagine it works like this(I hope someone will correct me on details): an app

X is consuming ~100 GiB of RAM(!)

2017-12-05 Thread Ewen Chan
To Whom It May Concern: Hello everybody. My name is Ewen and I am new to this distribution list. So let me start with a little bit of background and the problem statement of what I am seeing/encountering. I am running a SuperMicro Server 6027TR-HTRF (

Re: X is consuming ~100 GiB of RAM(!)

2017-12-05 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On Tue, 5 Dec 2017, Ewen Chan wrote: Not really sure. Someone suggested that I tried Xvfb but I didn't really know how I can use that without using an X server already, and again, in trying to conduct my own due diligence research into the issue, I stumbled upon using ssh -Y and enabling

Re: X is consuming ~100 GiB of RAM(!)

2017-12-05 Thread Ewen Chan
Not really sure. Someone suggested that I tried Xvfb but I didn't really know how I can use that without using an X server already, and again, in trying to conduct my own due diligence research into the issue, I stumbled upon using ssh -Y and enabling X11 forwarding via ssh so I will have to see

Re: X is consuming ~100 GiB of RAM(!)

2017-12-05 Thread Hi-Angel
On 6 December 2017 at 02:36, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: > > Also, given the the high usage does not happen outside of gnome session, > perhaps this is connected to compositing.. There're 2 mails which didn't get yet into the ML because they contain a screenshot, and

Re: X is consuming ~100 GiB of RAM(!)

2017-12-05 Thread Jose R R
Niltze [Hello], Ewen- On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 6:53 PM, Ewen Chan wrote: > I could try that. > > I will have to do quite a bit of research to figure out how though, but ok. As long as you properly fulfill dependencies, Xorg devs script can fetch the source and build it for

Re: X is consuming ~100 GiB of RAM(!)

2017-12-05 Thread Ewen Chan
I'm a little bit confused by your reply here. If it doesn't rely on GL, can you please help clarify why would I want to use Xvnc instead? (Was that suppose to be "If it DOES (rely on GL), to use Xvnc instead"?) Thanks. On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 7:17 PM, Vladimir Dergachev

Re: X is consuming ~100 GiB of RAM(!)

2017-12-05 Thread Ewen Chan
I could try that. I will have to do quite a bit of research to figure out how though, but ok. Thank you. On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 7:36 PM, Hi-Angel wrote: > On 6 December 2017 at 02:36, Vladimir Dergachev > wrote: > > > > Also, given the the high

Re: X is consuming ~100 GiB of RAM(!)

2017-12-05 Thread aivils
Hi, Don't worry. Count the digits. 100Mb consuming is pretty ordinary nowadays. They are not Gigabytes. Ewen Chan @ 2017-12-05 20:14 rakstīja: ewen@aes4:~> date Tue Dec 5 05:08:28 EST 2017 ewen@aes4:~> ps aux | grep Xorg root 2245 7.7 79.0 271100160 104332316 tty7 Ssl+ Nov25 1078:19

[PATCH xserver] dix: avoid deferencing NULL PtrCtrl

2017-12-05 Thread Olivier Fourdan
PtrCtrl really makes sense for relative pointing device only, absolute devices such as touch devices do not have any PtrCtrl set. In some cases, if the client issues a XGetPointerControl() immediatlely after a ChangeMasterDeviceClasses() copied the touch device to the VCP, a NULL pointer

Re: [RFC PATCH xserver] xwayland: Fix non-argb cursor conversion

2017-12-05 Thread Daniel Stone
On 27 September 2017 at 17:01, Olivier Fourdan wrote: > Fixes: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103012 > Signed-off-by: Olivier Fourdan Reviewed-by: Daniel Stone ___

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Move VT check from fb to exa

2017-12-05 Thread Daniel Stone
Hi, On 1 December 2017 at 18:14, Adam Jackson wrote: > On Fri, 2017-12-01 at 17:00 +, Daniel Stone wrote: >> Are these OK to push now then? > > I had thought that: > > commit a49379b6045453c7b787cc638db6afd0d14dce9c > Author: Adam Jackson > Date: Tue Sep 12