On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 18:53 +1000, David Seikel wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:23:54 +1000 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) > <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:03:57 +0200 RocketIII Scientist > > <rocketiii.scient...@gmail.com> said: > > > > use xrestop. that reports what x apps use what x resources. you'll > > find e uses 1 screen sized pixmap for desktop bg and thats pretty > > much it. as reported already - it looks like x added a leak in mouse > > pointer changes. the code for animating the pointer (per frame) is: > > > > Ecore_X_Cursor cur; > > > > cur = ecore_x_cursor_new(p->win, p->pixels, p->w, p->h, > > p->hot.x, p->hot.y); ecore_x_window_cursor_set(p->win, cur); > > ecore_x_cursor_free(cur); > > > > so literally: > > 1. create cursor with canvas ARGB pixel data > > 2. set cursor to window > > 3. free cursor (ok - as cursor will stay around until the window is > > deleted due to reference counting). > > > > any previously set cursor should be freed if it was set by this as it > > was already freed and when replaced, will be freed. i bet x has grown > > a bug in this code as e is probably about the only thing that > > animates cursor by drawing them its own memory then creating a new > > cursor for the new frame. > > > > you can check the ecore_x calls as to what they do xlib-wise, but > > they are correct. > > So, um, turning off idle cursor will stop that? Or using the X mouse > cursor? Just so we can A) track it down further for reporting to the > X.org guys, and B) stop leaking all my damn memory until they get it > fixed.
I can confirm that here, X went from 28% to 8% MEM when stopping the idle cursor > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial > Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited > royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing > server and web deployment. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
