Re: Severe memory leaks make X.org unuseable

2009-03-02 Thread Alan Cox
I have looked at the source code for X.org and the savage driver. I cannot really quite understand it at all. Is there a guide to describe and document the X.org internals in detail? There are documents for EXA and XAA. The majority of each driver is shared code so if you've got a chipset

Re: Severe memory leaks make X.org unuseable

2009-02-20 Thread Ross Burton
On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 16:44 -0800, milnser43...@yahoo.com wrote: I am sorry about the trouble that this misunderstanding has caused. I am just glad to know that the Xserver is really taking up only 30 mb of ram or so. So your system is no longer totally unusable and other programs are no

Re: Severe memory leaks make X.org unuseable

2009-02-19 Thread Maciej Grela
2009/2/19 milnser43...@yahoo.com milnser43...@yahoo.com: There are very serious and severe memory leaks under X.org with the savage driver. I am on FreeBSD. This is a very serious problem as it consumes all system memory adn causes other applications to crash. It is totally unuseable and

Re: Severe memory leaks make X.org unuseable

2009-02-19 Thread John Tapsell
2009/2/19 Maciej Grela maciej.gr...@gmail.com: 2009/2/19 milnser43...@yahoo.com milnser43...@yahoo.com: There are very serious and severe memory leaks under X.org with the savage driver. I am on FreeBSD. This is a very serious problem as it consumes all system memory adn causes other

Re: Severe memory leaks make X.org unuseable

2009-02-19 Thread Adam K Kirchhoff
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:18:39 + John Tapsell johnf...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/2/19 Maciej Grela maciej.gr...@gmail.com: 2009/2/19 milnser43...@yahoo.com milnser43...@yahoo.com: There are very serious and severe memory leaks under X.org with the savage driver. I am on FreeBSD. This is a

Re: Severe memory leaks make X.org unuseable

2009-02-19 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:22:21 -0800 (PST) milnser43...@yahoo.com milnser43...@yahoo.com wrote: There are very serious and severe memory leaks under X.org with the savage driver You forgot to attach the fixes At the same time important backwards compatability upon which many of our

Re: Severe memory leaks make X.org unuseable

2009-02-19 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, John Tapsell wrote: 2009/2/19 Maciej Grela maciej.gr...@gmail.com: 2009/2/19 milnser43...@yahoo.com milnser43...@yahoo.com: There are very serious and severe memory leaks under X.org with the savage driver. I am on FreeBSD. This is a very serious problem as it consumes

Re: Severe memory leaks make X.org unuseable

2009-02-19 Thread milnser43...@yahoo.com
--- On Thu, 2/19/09, Alan Cox a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk wrote: From: Alan Cox a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Subject: Re: Severe memory leaks make X.org unuseable To: milnser43...@yahoo.com Cc: xorg@lists.freedesktop.org Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009, 5:47 AM On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:22:21

Re: Severe memory leaks make X.org unuseable

2009-02-19 Thread Jim Gettys
On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 06:50 -0800, milnser43...@yahoo.com wrote: The number of apps which PEX, MIT_SUNDRY, and Ximage is probably a rather small number but certainly there have been apps written to use it. As for Xfree86-misc, I have heard that some modern screensavers use it to provide

Re: Severe memory leaks make X.org unuseable

2009-02-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Alan Cox wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:22:21 -0800 (PST) At the same time important backwards compatability upon which many of our applications depend, have been removed including PEX, Ximage, MIT-SUNDRY, XFree86-Misc, You forgot to volunteer to maintain them - not that I find you

Re: Severe memory leaks make X.org unuseable

2009-02-19 Thread milnser43...@yahoo.com
--- On Thu, 2/19/09, Jim Gettys j...@freedesktop.org wrote: From: Jim Gettys j...@freedesktop.org Subject: Re: Severe memory leaks make X.org unuseable To: milnser43...@yahoo.com Cc: xorg@lists.freedesktop.org Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009, 9:58 AM On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 06:50 -0800

Re: Severe memory leaks make X.org unuseable

2009-02-19 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 06:50:38AM -0800, milnser43...@yahoo.com wrote: I dont think that backwards compatability code should be removed just because we dont dont think anyone uses it anymore, or because we can. As far as I am aware these extensions were not causing any problems and I cannot

Re: Severe memory leaks make X.org unuseable

2009-02-19 Thread Robert C. Noland III
On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 09:18 +, John Tapsell wrote: 2009/2/19 Maciej Grela maciej.gr...@gmail.com: 2009/2/19 milnser43...@yahoo.com milnser43...@yahoo.com: There are very serious and severe memory leaks under X.org with the savage driver. I am on FreeBSD. This is a very serious problem

Re: Severe memory leaks make X.org unuseable

2009-02-19 Thread Robert C. Noland III
wrote: From: Adam K Kirchhoff ad...@voicenet.com Subject: Re: Severe memory leaks make X.org unuseable To: John Tapsell johnf...@gmail.com Cc: XORG xorg@lists.freedesktop.org Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009, 4:33 AM On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:18:39 + John Tapsell johnf...@gmail.com

Re: Severe memory leaks make X.org unuseable

2009-02-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
milnser43...@yahoo.com wrote: At the same time important backwards compatability upon which many of our applications depend, have been removed including PEX, Ximage, MIT-SUNDRY, XFree86-Misc, among others creating a massive incompatability headache. A prime principle of the X.org project

Re: Severe memory leaks make X.org unuseable

2009-02-19 Thread milnser43...@yahoo.com
: Re: Severe memory leaks make X.org unuseable To: milnser43...@yahoo.com Cc: xorg@lists.freedesktop.org Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009, 6:36 PM On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 07:58 -0800, milnser43...@yahoo.com wrote: 2898 131072 0 - 131072 rwx /dev/mem [...] 30A51000