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EmbraceThePenguin

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From: New Mexico, USA

Registered: 2004-08-09

Posts: 197

Xorg memory leak?

I noticed that when my machine is up for a week or longer, that I start using allot more memory. I have tracked it down to Xorg and was wondering if others have seen this.

When I reboot, I use about 120 megs of ram for X and KDE. After I open Firefox, Kontact, and some other apps and play some Doom3 or UT2004, I notice my memory climbs above 400 megs (as it should). When I close those apps, I regain allot of my memory, but some is still not freeing. After about a week of this, I see a consistent 360 megs of usage with just KDE running.

Now, I can drop out of KDE and X and let the machine sit for about 10 min, then restart X and KDM, but it never replenishes my RAM. After a restart of X and KDE, I still am sitting at about 220 megs used; until I reboot, then its back to about 120 megs.

I checked the memory usage on my process' and apparently, its X that is eating up all that ram. Has anyone else seen this? Is it a memory leak in Xorg?

Thanks!!!

Joe

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: Xorg memory leak?

It's called a cache. It only eats up what you aren't using.

EmbraceThePenguin

Member

From: New Mexico, USA

Registered: 2004-08-09

Posts: 197

Re: Xorg memory leak?

It's called a cache. It only eats up what you aren't using.

Ok, so its not actually "Eating" up that ram. Its storing it for quicker access to code in memory?

Thanks!!!

Joe

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: Xorg memory leak?

Yep, that's what's going on.

You're welcome...