Description of problem: I'm running xcompmgr -n -f -c -C In my regular GNOME session. After a couple of hours of desktop usage xrestop shows it has 650 MB of pixmaps allocated on the X server res-base Wins GCs Fnts Pxms Misc Pxm mem Other Total PID Identifier 0600000 1 1 0 285 17763 649297K 416K 649713K ? xcompmgr this appears to be continuing to go up consuming all my RAM pushing other apps into Swap. It is unclear whether this is a 'leak' or just over aggressive caching - if the latter it needs to purge things a bit more often. If I kill xcompmgr all pixmaps are freed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xcompmgr-1.1.3-7.fc8 xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.3.0.0-42.fc8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run xcompmgr -n -f -c -C 2. Use desktop for 2 hours 3. Actual results: X is using huge amounts of memory for pixmaps for xcompmgr client Expected results: A 'reasonable' amount of memory is used - where 'reasonable' < ALL RAM. Additional info: In case it is relevant, the machine has a r500 graphics card, and is using the open source ATI driver from the r3xx-render branch. It doesn't appear to be driver specific though, because another machine with Nvidia driver is showing similar levels of pixmap / RAM usage.
Can you please test with the latest version of xcompmgr in updates-testing, and report if it fix the issue for you? You can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update xcompmgr
Yes, this update fixed it, closing the bug.