On Friday 29 February 2008, Timo Aaltonen wrote: > No reason to reopen bugs that the original reporter has closed. X > "eating" memory because of firefox is not a bug, because it only > reflects all the pixmem that apps have reserved. > > ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) > Status: Incomplete => Invalid
You might be right. However, what happened was that I saw a bug about OO crashing hard and freezing X totally. I submitted such a bug a while ago myself and went to great lengths to get it resolved, but was never acknowledged (not on LP and not in IRC). For me, that bug was a real time-looser and showstopper. Entire machine freezing and loosing lots of unsaved changes is what I was used to when having Redmond's OS, but I switched to Linux and now I was experiencing it again and that made me very unhappy. And the lack of attention to the difficult to reproduce problem made me even more disappointed. Now I saw someone else reporting that same bug. And I jumped at it by searching trough the bug database and link those bugs together, so that hopefuylly a more complete picture would arise. Altough it strikes few users, it strikes them hard ! So that's why I reopened this bug. Maybe that was wrong. So be it. Thanks for the correction, in that case! The reason I stumbled upon this bug and the OO bug, was because on my 4GB system, memory is full after about 24 hrs and applications start to get the oomkiller treatment. And the machine becomes totally unresponsive for ten minutes and then suddenly moves again. (Like Windoze did so many times and that made me go away from Windoze). So, I was searching for Xorg and memory leaks. And I still can't find an answer; it almost certainly has to do with nvidia, but it can't have to do with compiz, it's not running in my KDE sessions. So, I am still hunting for an answer ! Cheers, ace -- Xorg process eating memory https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/157112 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
