Bug 448503

Created attachment 306754 [details]
Xorg.0.log

Can we get /etc/X11/xorg.conf as well, please? Anything interesting about your
setup?

Created attachment 306756 [details]
xorg.conf

Nothing special there, just a standard xorg.conf created by the standard
xorg.conf creation tools ;)

Any chance you are rotating your desktop background regularly? I noticed, while
running webilder, that memory is leaked every time a new background displayed.

ie. (from memory...)
for i in /usr/share/backgrounds/*; do feh --bg-center $i; done (or gconftool-2
--set /apps/desktop/background -t string $i, both with same results)

the same command with "feh $i; sleep 1; killall feh" or similar does not induce
the same results.

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated
Graphics Controller (rev 0c)


This is on a compaq 6710b. Stock xorg.conf.

If this is related, I can grab some hard numbers and other info...

Nope. No Desktop background rotations over here.

I'm also seeing X memory hogging:

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            
16266 root      20   0  896m 183m 7904 R  0.8 18.2  29:20.97 X

xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.4.99.901-29.20080415.fc9.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.8.0-14.fc9.x86_64

I did a pmap of the X process and it looks like this line grows:
00000000011f0000 272708K rw---    [ anon ]

Nothing really special about my setup.  AMD/x86_64/ATI Radeon:
06:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc R430 [Radeon X800 XL]
(PCIe) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Unknown device 0952

my xrestop is about 30MB also.

Created attachment 307299 [details]
my xorg.conf

$ sudo pmap -x 2220 
2220:   /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -br -verbose -auth
/var/run/gdm/auth-cookie-XX9R6OCU-for-gdm -nolisten tcp
Address   Kbytes     RSS    Anon  Locked Mode   Mapping
[skip/]
08c08000  599920       -       -       - rw---    [ anon ]
[/skip]
-------- ------- ------- ------- -------
total kB  727592 

  PID  PPID  UID TTY       VIRT  RES  SHR    TIME+  %CPU %MEM S COMMAND         
2220  2219    0 tty7      719m 642m  14m  17:05.66  6.7 32.0 S Xorg         

xorg eats up lots of memory in
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.4.99.902-2.20080612.fc9.i386 and nvidia closed source driver.

I'm having exactly same problem as the orginal author of this bugreport.

I'm running 64bit T61,C2D,2GB RAM
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.4.99.901-29.20080415.fc9.x86_64

It seems that Xorgs leaks memory with speed in range of MB per minute.
xrestop doesn't show some unusually high growing pixmap allocation.

/proc/pid/smaps seems to be showing growing heap numbers

VMSIZE:     607764 kb
RSS:        526040 kb total
              3780 kb shared
              3284 kb private clean
            174592 kb private dirty
PRIVATE MAPPINGS
     vmsize   rss clean   rss dirty   file
   70680 kb        0 kb    70552 kb
   28676 kb        0 kb    28676 kb
   27696 kb        0 kb    27696 kb
   14760 kb        0 kb    14632 kb   [heap]
   12356 kb        0 kb    12356 kb
    7020 kb        0 kb     7020 kb
    7020 kb        0 kb     7020 kb
    5936 kb        0 kb     5936 kb
     160 kb        0 kb      156 kb
      48 kb        8 kb       36 kb   /usr/bin/Xorg
      36 kb        0 kb       36 kb
      84 kb        0 kb       36 kb   [stack]
      36 kb        0 kb       36 kb

the list looks a bit different in KDE or Gnome - but both environment seems to
showing this Xorg memleak behavior.

(--) PCI:*(0@0:2:0) Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics
Controller rev 12, Mem @ 0xf8100000/1048576, 0xe0000000/268435456, I/O @
0x00001800/8
(--) PCI: (0@0:2:1) Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics
Controller rev 12, Mem @ 0xf8200000/1048576


Also I don't see any other process growing it size - or interacting with Xserver.

If there is anything I should try - just ask...

Update: with new version:
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.4.99.902-3.20080612.fc9.x86_64
I no longer experience massive & fast memory grow. But still I can see quite
large memory consumption over the time - something like 50MB/day - much better
than few days ago.

If there are any idea how to trace these leaks and still be able to work I'll
try them.

With xrestop I'm noticing these weird lines:

6200000     0    0    0    1    0     6890K      0B   6890K   ?   <unknown>
5e00000     0    0    0    1    0     6890K      0B   6890K   ?   <unknown>

This problem may be the same with Bug 450782.
Try this patch.
http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/x11-libs/pixman/files/pixman-0.11.4-memleak.patch?view=markup

unfortunately, that didn't help me.  If others would like to give pixman .11 a
try my fc9 rebuild of pixman rawhide is here:

http://shishz.fedorapeople.org/

cat /proc/$(pidof Xorg)/smaps
...
1b405000-40e98000 rw-p 1b405000 00:00 0                                  [heap]
Size:            617036 kB
Rss:             392420 kB
Shared_Clean:         0 kB
Shared_Dirty:         0 kB
Private_Clean:      260 kB
Private_Dirty:   392160 kB
Swap:   224520 kB
...


pmap -x $(pidof Xorg)
...

----------------  ------  ------  ------  ------
total kB         1311216       -       -       -

I see steady growth. Eventually things become slow. nvidia, twinview. RHEL 5u3.

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