Dear list, I also noticed the issue with awesome v3.4.7-7-g2f739a5 (git version few weeks old).
In my experience, the behavior can be trigerred just by repeatedly opening/closing windows. I ran the following tests: I. Default config, open a terminal, let it show in taskbar, kill it, repeat 100 times gives this result: ps axo rsz,command after restarting awesome: 7552 awesome bash# for i in `seq 100` ; do urxvt & sleep 0.4; kill $! ; done ps axo rsz,command afterwards: 11868 awesome -> about 30kB of "leak" per window II. Modified default, same theme, with plain window titlebars ps axo rsz,command after restarting awesome: 8428 awesome bash# for i in `seq 100` ; do urxvt & sleep 0.4; kill $! ; done ps axo rsz,command afterwards: 34924 awesome -> about 270kB per window Maybe that is why not everyone notices - the fancier widgets, the bigger the leak? Anyway - restarting awesome seems to reset memory consumption for me. My config: IBM Thinkpad X41, x86 32bit, Ubuntu 10.4, Lua 5.1.4, awesome v3.4.7-7-g2f739a5 with gcc 4.4.3 Best luck finding this bug, Tomas Gavenciak -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
