Memory usage in X.org with thin clients

[Michel Dänzer]

On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 18:46 +0200, Markus Hakansson wrote:
> 
> The longer a user-session progresses the more memory is consumed by the
> X-server until the machine is starved of memory and the kernel kills the
> X-server (or freezes when overcommit is turned off).
> It is very obvious when looking at memory-consumption in top that %MEM
> for the X-server starts at somewhere around 12% and keeps going until it
> reaches 100% (or thereabout).
> It mostly happens when a web browser has been running for several hours
> (or days), and most often when it has been playing flash-files. But I
> have noticed that for instance Gimp also pushes the memory usage to 100%
> after it has been used for a while.

Could it be (at least partly)
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1043 ?


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