On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 04:35:19PM -0400, Mark Vojkovich wrote: > On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Chris Spiegel wrote: > > Over time my X server keeps growing in memory usage. I'm aware that > > > > I used restest, which reports the following client that looks like the > > culprit: > > Client 8 (base = 0x1200000, mask = 0x1fffff): 10 resource types > > WINDOW: 45 > > PIXMAP: 22002 (133706080 bytes) > > It's not one pixmap. It's 22002 pixmaps totalling 133 MBytes, all > owned by client 8. That client's base is 0x1200000. You can usually > find which client it is by looking at the window ids. Run xwininfo > on various windows. The ones that have a Window id that starts with > 0x1200000 will be owned by the same client. > > It looks like that client is creating but never freeing pixmaps. > > Mark.
It turned out to be the window manager, and it indeed was creating and not freeing pixmaps. I found where in the source it was leaking, added the necessary frees, and voil�, absolutely no leakage anymore. Thanks so much for the tips. For those who are wondering, it's the kbox client of kwin; I've notified the author, so hopefully a new release will soon be available with a fix. Chris _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
