On Thu 2/18/21 17:56 +0100 Olivier Fourdan wrote:
>You cannot restart the X server without disconnecting the running X11
>clients, i.e. killing your session.
>
>But X11 resources are allocated by the Xserver on behalf of the clients.
>
>Have you checked if it's not just an X11 client allocating (i.e. leaking)
>resources?
>
>The command "xrestop" should give you an indication of how much of
>resources each X11 client has allocated.
>
>If that's the case, killing/restarting just that client would suffice…
Thanks much Olivier. I've installed xrestop, and will try it next time
high Xorg mem usage shows up.
--
Tom
$ command ps -wwH -o
pid,ppid,pgid,cputime,nice,user,tty,state,etime,bsdstart,nlwp,rss,vsize,args -p
296958
PID PPID PGID TIME NI USER TT S ELAPSED START
NLWP RSS VSZ COMMAND
296958 296956 296956 00:06:35 0 my_name tty2 R 01:20:43 09:45
10 88608 999096 /usr/libexec/Xorg vt2 -displayfd 3 -auth
/run/user/4187/gdm/Xauthority -background none -noreset -keeptty -verbose 3
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