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 pages makes X memory usage grow in the hundreds of MB. After Okular is closed, usually X returns the memory to the OS. But not always, sometimes retains some dozens of MB.
Is this considered a bug on the X server, or is it being abused by the application? I'm using Kubuntu 8.10, which comes with Xorg server version 1.5.2. -- Oscar _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
