Bug 10220

Summary:	Memory leakage when run for long time
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Tim Lundstrvm <tim>
Component:	XFree86	Assignee:	Preston Brown <pbrown>
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Description Tim Lundstrvm 2000-03-17 15:10:14 UTC

If you have the X-server running for long periods of time it slowly grows
in memory-consumption. The growth rate is low and only noticable if you run
X for several weeks.

I have noticed this behavior in XFree86 3.3.5.

Comment 1 Preston Brown 2000-07-13 19:22:30 UTC

this is most likely due actually to programs that you are using.  Some programs
allocate pixmaps in the the server and then never free them up.  This causes the
server to grow in size.

XScreenSaver is a frequent culprit. There is no real fix for this on the
horizon.