Bug 90035

Description of problem: 
Since I've started using a new X11 animated mouse cursor theme, the X server process (X) 
keeps constantly growing in memory consumption. This didn't happen when using the standard 
X11 mouse cursor theme that comes by default with Red Hat Linux 9. 
 
This memory leaks is completely reproducible by forcing the X server to change between an 
animated mouse cursor and a standard, B&W mouse cursor. For example, when using VNC 
viewer (vncviewer) to remotely access another RH9 server, most of the time the mouse cursor 
shown when the pointer is inside the VNC viewer window has a standard, B&W appearance. I 
can reproduce the memory leak simply by moving the mouse pointer inside of the VNC viewer 
window and then outside, to force the switching between the new animated mouse cursor and 
the old, non-animated, B&W cursor. 
 
The "top" command reveals an steady increase in memory consumption when doing this. For 
example, I've seen X server to increase memory consumption from 24% up to a 32% simply 
by making the mouse enter and exit the VNC window to force mouse shape change. 
 
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 
XFree86-4.3.0-6 
 
How reproducible: 
Always 
 
Steps to Reproduce: 
1. Install an animated mouse cursor for XFree86 4.3. For example, I downloaded "Golden 
XCursors 3D" from "http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=5507". 
1a. Install the mouse themes by uncompressing the package. Next, move the "gold" and 
"default" directories from the mouse theme package to "/usr/share/icons". 
1b. Restart X. This should display golden, animated mouse cursors. 
2. Log on to your X11 session. In my case, it's a KDE session. 
3. Launch "vncviewer" to attach to a remote RH9 server. 
4. While inside the client area of the VNC viewer window, the mouse cursor will usually have 
the old, boring, B&W appearance of older versions of XFree86: a standard black arrow. There 
are some exceptions to this rule: it seems that some applications running on the remote server 
still show the animated mouse cursor, but usually, the desktop area of the remote server does 
always show the standard, non-animated, B&W mouse cursor. 
5. If you move the mouse outside the VNC viewer window, the mouse cursor will return to the 
animated, golden arrow. 
6. By repeating steps 4 and 5 for a few times, you'll appreciate the "X" process increases it's 
memory usage steadily. 
 
Actual results: 
X server seems to leak memory every time the mouse cursor changes between an animated, 
colorful cursor and an older, B&W one. 
 
Expected results: 
X server shouldn't leak memory simply by switching back and forth from and to the new, 
animated cursors back and the older, B&W ones. 
 
Additional info: 
Running XFree86-4.3.0-6 from RawHide, but also happens with RH9's XFree86-4.3.0-2. 
The video card is an ATI RAGE Mobility M1 AGP with 8MB. 
The machine is running Red Hat 9 with a 2.5.68-mm3 kernel (yeah, I know it's an experimental 
kernel and this is not normally supported, but I've seen problems in the past with the new 
mouse cursors, specially with the ATI and Radeon drivers). 
This seems to happen with the standard ATI driver and the GATOS project ATI driver.