Bug#559408: xserver-xorg-core: X server memory leak

2009-12-06 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 01:58:38PM -0500, ross wrote: On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 09:11:23AM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: You could try running X under valgrind (with debugging symbols installed). It would be fairly slow, but could give some hints. IIRC 1.7 fixed a memleak related to cursors,

Bug#559408: xserver-xorg-core: X server memory leak

2009-12-05 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 09:11:23AM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: The leak is fairly slow - it really does take a day or two to get to the 1G mark. In the past hour or so, it's grown from 70MiB to 90MiB. I am happy to collect any information requested to help troubleshoot this - it's

Bug#559408: xserver-xorg-core: X server memory leak

2009-12-04 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 23:48:26 -0500, Ross Vandegrift wrote: After a recent Xorg upgrade (1:7.3+20 - 1:7.4+4), my Xorg server leaks memory like a sieve. RSS slowly grows until my box starts to OOM. If I restart Xorg prior to OOMing, the memory is freed and I can gracefully recover. I am