On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 11:57:01AM +0200, David Mart?nez Moreno wrote: > El martes, 6 de septiembre de 2005 23:17, Siep Kroonenberg escribió: > > Loading a new background image on the root window usually increases > > the amount of memory taken up by Xorg by 2 or 3 mb, going by the RES > > column of top. > > I suppose that this is not a bug, but that X.Org is translating the > image to > a bitmap, thus growing itself in size. I made this test: > > I had this JPEG image: > > -rw------- 1 ender ender 132873 sep 7 11:49 orbes.jpg > > Then converted with Gimp to a bitmap, and: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 ender ender 2359350 sep 7 11:51 orbes.bmp > -rw------- 1 ender ender 132873 sep 7 11:49 orbes.jpg > > It was a 1024x768 image. It resulted between 2 and 3 MB. > > Could anybody from debian-x confirm my suspicions that this is normal > behavior before closing this bug? > > Best regards, > > > Ender.
Such behavior would be acceptable if X.org forgot old background images. But it doesn't. Try to successively load a series of background images, e.g. from the KDE wallpaper collection, and the memory occupied by Xorg will keep growing. -- Siep Kroonenberg