Bug 101123
Summary: | XFree86 continually consumes system memory and swap... | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide | Reporter: | Michael Lee Yohe <michael> |
Component: | XFree86 | Assignee: | Mike A. Harris <mharris> |
Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 1.0 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i686 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2003-08-25 01:24:50 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Bug Blocks: | 100644 |
Description
Michael Lee Yohe
2003-07-29 14:28:26 UTC
My error: restarting X consumes _much_ less memory. 31398 root 15 0 67460 16M 6900 S 0.4 2.2 0:07 X I have Galeon 1.3.7 open. Evolution 1.4.3. And a few terminals. I just noticed that revision 18 (XFree86) in Rawhide fixes some memory leak problems. Would this be related? My bug might be related to Bug 90035 (I am using animated cursors with my X session). Unlikely the memory leaks fixed in rawhide are affecting you. They are small almost irrelevant leaks which I added fixes for just for completeness. X resources are stored in the X server, which means if applications leak X resources, the X server's memory usage will increase. That's not a bug in the X server, but a bug in the application. You need to determine which application is causing this to happen, and then file bug reports against that application. (assuming this is the case, which it almost always is) Note that screensavers can consume gobs of memory and keep your CPU's running very busily, even if you're switched away from X. A leak in a screensaver also can appear as X increasing in size. You'll need to narrow the problem down to a specific easily reproduceable minimal test case in order for me to investigate further. The likelyhood though is that you'll find it is a screensaver or other application pixmap leaking. Oh, one more thing... Try disabling the color mouse cursor themes entirely to see if that affects your problem or not. If it does, then it might very well be the same as the bug report you refered to above. Attach your X config file and log to the report also please. Thanks Lack of response, so closing as WORKSFORME as I do not experience this problem. |