> Still trying to find the source of this memory leak in my system. I > reinstalled XFree86 4.2 from the binaries off of their website, but this > has not made any apparent difference.
A good way to check for leaks is to run top in a separate window for some length of time. You should be able to detect the leak - one or more processes will continuae to increase in size steadily over time. Note if you have jabberd installed - that's been confirmed as a major leak. I personally found it when I was contemplating doing instant messaging with my brother - it's not worth the trouble. I can't see any other use for it. In less than a week uptime it had consumed nearly 300 megs of RAM. > The only real information I have is that it only leaks while X is running, > so presumably that narrows down the culprits, but not enough for me to > work out what it is. Is it X itself? I still have 4.1. Do you notice the server (X) growing uncontrollably? There were some threads sometime back about this but AFAIK it depended on what video card you were using. Speaking of bizarre things -- about 2 days ago I was just staring at my X screen thinking what to do next. All of a sudden the whole X subsystem crashed, bringing me down to a console. I have yet to figure why this happened. Sometimes bringing down the X subsystem is a temporary fix for heavy memory use, but my system was fairly lightly loaded at the time.
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