Bug 10220 - Memory leakage when run for long time
Summary: Memory leakage when run for long time
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: XFree86
Version: 6.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Preston Brown
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Reported: 2000-03-17 15:10 UTC by Tim Lundstrvm
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-03-17 15:10:14 UTC
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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.
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