On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> > The X-server growing by 100 meg/hour sounds like a client resource
> >leak to me. It would have to be done by a client who remained alive
> >that whole time (like the window manager). It is possible that a
> >library bug could cause a leak like that.
>
> That is what it sounded like to me as well, and it is possible
> that it is the problem still. If so though, very odd it only
> happens with certain hardware. It is probably not a driver bug,
> but possibly a problem that only shows up due to certain
> assumptions or somesuch in the driver or other code it interacts
> with.
The "nv" driver does nothing unusual that I'm aware of.
It's a cut and paste from other drivers and many other drivers
have cut and pasted from it. There shouldn't be any differences
at all from the client's perspective.
>
> > I once talked about adding an XFree86 option where the server could
> >print out sum totals of particular resources left unfreed by clients
> >when they died. I should probably add that sooner rather than later.
>
> Sounds like a good idea. Jim Gettys also suggested doing
> something with NFS to help troubleshoot, however I'd have to hunt
> my IRC logs to pull up the details.
Keith suggested I should write a server extension instead so
that you can query the resources of running clients. I guess I'll
do that instead. Maybe this weekend.
>
> Can you reproduce this on 4.1.0 with nv?
>
I don't think I even have KDE on any of my systems (can't stand the
thing - way too slow). I haven't seen anything with Gnome or with the
AA xterm though.
Mark.
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