On Son, 2002-10-27 at 23:58, Damien Miller wrote: > Felix Kühling wrote: > > > > I had my Xserver running for about 24 hours straight and noticed that it > > was using about 220M virtual memory. Even after closing all clients and > > logging out the memory usage didn't drop significantly. After I killed > > and restarted gdm it uses "only" about 90M. Does this indicate a memory > > leak in the Xserver or are there other possible explanations for such > > behaviour? > > Memory can only ever increase for processes which do memory allocation > using brk() - there is no way to return such memory to the OS.
Interesting, but if that was all there is to it, then the apparent memory usage should stay constant for a while after a server reset (as the actual memory usage should then be the same as on server startup if there's no leak), right? I've seen reports that this isn't the case, it starts growing again immediately. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ApacheCon, November 18-21 in Las Vegas (supported by COMDEX), the only Apache event to be fully supported by the ASF. http://www.apachecon.com _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
