On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 01:55, Damien Miller wrote: > Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Son, 2002-10-27 at 23:58, Damien Miller wrote: > >>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. > > The fact that it grows doesn't necessarily mean a memleak in the server > - only if the growth is unbounded.
Which would seem to be the case if it starts growing from 220 M immediately when it's only 90 M on startup? (the numbers Felix provided in the original post) -- 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
