On Sun, 2012-04-15 at 22:52 +0200, Folkert van Heusden wrote:
> I'm also not entirely sure if it indeed is a leak in my program as I
> have a routine in it which constantly (20 times/sec) checks the memory
> usage (via /proc) of my program and does an exit() when it reaches
> 500MB (normally it should not use more than 120MB).
> If it is something in Xorg, would valgrind "see" this? I think it
> would (not sure, that's why I ask) as it would be the outcome of a
> call to it (via SDL/GL).
I guess you mean by  Xorg the separate system process handling
the X display ?
Valgrind will not monitor what is happening in this separate
process, unless it is launched under Valgrind.

Philippe



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