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troy61

Member

Registered: 2007-01-16

Posts: 3

beryl + xorg memory leak

Hi all,

is it just me who gets a memory leak in X while using beryl?
X eats up more and more memory with beryl running.

I am using beryl from unstable (as of this day)
with the downgraded libgl-dri-6.5.1-1 and mesa-6.5.1-2.
I tried with most plugins disabled except
the essential ones like move and place. Same result.
This is what top shows

top - 09:42:52 up  6:57,  1 user,  load average: 2.39, 1.14, 0.64
Tasks: 108 total,   2 running, 106 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 52.4%us,  9.5%sy,  0.0%ni, 33.3%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  4.8%si,
0.0%st
Mem:   1026596k total,   997404k used,    29192k free,    42864k buffers
Swap:  1269092k total,        0k used,  1269092k free,   379896k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 2770 root      15   0  594m 221m  10m S  3.0 22.1  19:41.08 X

and it goes on like this.
I open a firefox and close it again:  the RES memory goes to 226m

Does somebody else has this?

troy61

Member

Registered: 2007-01-16

Posts: 3

Re: beryl + xorg memory leak

meanwhile I found myself:
downgrading of libgl-dri and mesa (because of this:http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=28614
was not a good idea.
I upgraded and somehow it works now.

JGC

Developer

Registered: 2003-12-03

Posts: 1,664

Re: beryl + xorg memory leak

The latest version of xorg-server on archlinux has its protocols updated to match mesa 6.5.2. Running it with older versions could cause problems yes.

delphinen

Member

Registered: 2006-10-02

Posts: 67

Re: beryl + xorg memory leak

If you have performance/stability issues, I sugest you to try Compiz http://go-compiz.org as your compositing window manager.

potentials

Member

Registered: 2004-01-04

Posts: 130

Re: beryl + xorg memory leak

maybe you've got a shared-memory graphics card?

funkyou

Member

From: Berlin, DE

Registered: 2006-03-19

Posts: 848

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Re: beryl + xorg memory leak

is it just me who gets a memory leak in X while using beryl?

No, me too... but with the nvidia drivers... normally the xserver takes about 30mb (more or less) on my system, but when i start beryl, it slowly increases... After a hour Xorg occupies about 300mb and counting...

Mesa is the latest 6.5.2-1 and i usually compile beryl from svn... nVidia drivers are 1.0.9631-1 and its a GeForce 7600GT.

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