There is a new utility called "xrestop" available in the freedesktop.org
CVS that is very useful in identifying clients that hog server memory.
This utility is patterned somewhat after the "top" utility; written
by Mathew Allum, using Mark's fine Xres extension.
- Jim
On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 19:50, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>
> > [Mark Vojkovich]
> > > When I see these sort of requests I usually feel pretty comfortable
> > > dismissing them as application resource leaks.
> >
> > Is it possible for dead applications to "use" resources in the X
> > server? I mean, if a web browser allocate several resources in the X
> > server (shared memory, pixmaps, fonts, I do not know what types of
> > resources are available for allication), and they die, is all these
> > resources released in the server?
>
> Server-side resources are released when the connection between
> the server and client is severed. Only apps that stick around an
> leak cause problems.
>
> You can check the resource usage with:
>
> http://www.xfree86.org/~mvojkovi/restest.c
>
> Be careful running it though. It grabs the server and dumps
> data to stdout, which means there's a deadlock situation if you
> run it from within X without redirecting the output. So either
> run it remotely or redirect to a file "restest >& resout".
>
>
> Mark.
>
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