On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 23:06, Eric wrote: > Hi, I've noticed something with XFree86 4.2.0. First off here's my hardware >configuration: > AMD Athlon 900MHz, VIA chipset motherboard > ATI All-In-Wonder Pro PCI 8MB, using the ati_drv.o from the GATOS project's ati.2 >project. > Linux version 2.4.18 (Slackware Linux 8.0) > > Here's the symptom. > Usually, X is pretty quick and responseful. My typical performance gauge is XMMS's >playlist window. > Whenever I scroll through the XMMS playlist window, the scrolling is extremely >smooth, almost flicker-free. > > However, as time goes on, say the X server has been running for a few days, with >XMMS staying up almost all > the time, occasionally running XawTV with the GATOS project's km module for >video4linux, and occasionally > running Mozilla off and on, there comes a time where the X environment feels overall >slower, like screen refreshes > have a tad more flicker in them. The giveaway symptom is when I scroll XMMS's >playlist and instead of that > smooth flicker-free scrolling, the scrolling doesn't feel as smooth and has a lot of >flicker in it. > That problem never goes away--even after restarting XMMS several times, the problem >doesn't go away. Most > applications still run fine but screen refreshes, especially for graphically-intense >applications, feel > a little slower. The problem DOES go away, however, when I restart the X server.
Sounds like a memory leak. Beware that even if the X server's memory consumption grows, that can be because it stores resources on behalf of clients. Finding and fixing the real cause can be hard, good luck. :) The resource extension in current CVS could be useful though. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
