Description of problem: After less than a week of normal desktop usage, my system becomes unresponsive. The computer normally has two users logged into GNOME, simultaneously. Some diagnostics show that I am running out of memory and much is being swapped. $ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 4041160 3929832 111328 0 28804 451696 -/+ buffers/cache: 3449332 591828 Swap: 6160380 2415820 3744560 Upon further investigation, it appears that much of the memory is consumed by the process Xorg. When sorting by memory usages, Xorg is always the first line in top. I am left to conclude that Xorg is leaking some memory, after a week the system becomes unusable. From top: PID USER VIRT RES SHR %MEM TIME COMMAND 1864 root 3364m 1.4g 4192 35.2 686:12.67 Xorg $ uptime 17:36:46 up 4 days, 21:12, 6 users, load average: 0.04, 0.43, 0.95 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): $ rpm -qa xorg\* xorg-x11-drv-i128-1.3.4-9.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-hyperpen-1.4.1-2.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-2-100dpi-7.5-4.fc15.noarch xorg-x11-drv-cirrus-1.3.2-10.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-nv-2.1.18-8.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-fbdev-0.4.2-2.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-s3virge-1.10.4-9.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-sis-0.10.3-7.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-qxl-0.0.21-13.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-apps-7.6-2.fc15.x86_64 xorg-x11-drivers-7.4-2.fc15.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-trident-1.3.4-7.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-15-75dpi-7.5-4.fc15.noarch xorg-x11-drv-apm-1.2.3-8.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-15-100dpi-7.5-4.fc15.noarch xorg-x11-server-utils-7.5-7.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-vesa-2.3.0-9.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi-7.5-4.fc15.noarch xorg-x11-xinit-1.3.1-1.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-font-utils-7.5-6.fc15.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-mutouch-1.3.0-2.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-fonts-misc-7.5-4.fc15.noarch xorg-x11-server-Xephyr-1.11.4-2.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-siliconmotion-1.7.5-2.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-utils-7.5-3.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-9-100dpi-7.5-4.fc15.noarch xorg-x11-drv-rendition-4.2.4-7.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-glint-1.2.5-2.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-proto-devel-7.6-12.fc16.noarch xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi-7.5-4.fc15.noarch xorg-x11-fonts-Type1-7.5-4.fc15.noarch xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.14.3-4.20120201git36c190671.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-ast-0.91.10-7.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-v4l-0.2.0-14.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-tdfx-1.4.3-9.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-xkb-utils-7.5-5.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-fonts-ethiopic-7.5-4.fc15.noarch xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-2-75dpi-7.5-4.fc15.noarch xorg-x11-drv-wacom-0.12.0-1.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-mach64-6.9.0-2.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-savage-2.3.3-1.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-voodoo-1.2.4-7.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-vmmouse-12.7.0-2.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-xauth-1.0.6-1.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-fonts-cyrillic-7.5-4.fc15.noarch xorg-x11-drv-i740-1.3.2-9.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-mga-1.4.13-8.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-1.5.0-2.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.17.0-8.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-resutils-7.5-2.fc15.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-keyboard-1.6.0-2.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-penmount-1.5.0-3.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-elographics-1.3.0-2.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-vmware-11.0.3-6.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-sisusb-0.9.4-7.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-evdev-2.6.99.901-7.20120118git9d9c9870c.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-dummy-0.3.4-7.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-14-100dpi-7.5-4.fc15.noarch xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.11.4-2.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-openchrome-0.2.904-16.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-aiptek-1.4.1-2.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-void-1.4.0-2.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-fpit-1.4.0-2.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-14-75dpi-7.5-4.fc15.noarch xorg-x11-drv-mouse-1.7.1-2.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi-7.5-4.fc15.noarch xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.16-27.20110720gitb806e3f.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-9-75dpi-7.5-4.fc15.noarch xorg-x11-server-common-1.11.4-2.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-r128-6.8.1-11.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-acecad-1.5.0-2.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi-7.5-4.fc15.noarch How reproducible: 100% after about 1 week of uptime.
What driver are you using?
> What driver are you using? Radeon
Created attachment 580995 [details] Xorg.0.log
I'm also seeing Xorg memory leaks on my Fedora 16 machine. I'm using KDE plasma desktop. After about a day of usage, X uses several hundred MBs of RAM (can be even several GB), and uses a considerable amount of CPU resources (up to one core) when idle. Several tasks, especially scrolling in evince and displaying the play list of amarok 1.4 becomes really slow. I'm using a Geforce 8800 GTS. The problem appears with the nvidia driver as well as the nouveau driver, but the memory leak seems to be worse with the nvidia driver than the nouveau driver.
I have sistematic memory leak with different computer and driver (radeon and nvidia). I use xorg with audacious audio player with information bar activated (ctrl+shift+I). xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.11.4-3.fc16.x86_64 I attach a short valgrind session where I see some memory leak that is possible begin to be important in more long in time session.
Created attachment 634908 [details] valgrind log
reported at: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19200
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I'm on Fedora 17 now with a different machine and I'm still seeing a memory leak in X, at least with the nvidia driver. After some days (with suspend to ram during the nights), I have about half a GiB of RAM usage and some tasks (like minimizing and maximizing the thunderbird window) takes more and more time (several seconds). xrestop does not show any unusual resource usage.
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