[Bug 2590] Gradual memory leak

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------- Additional Comments From paul at wolfbone.ath.cx  2005-02-23 11:00 -------
I'm pasting this from bug 82073 at bugs.gentoo.org as requested by Donnie Berkholz:

I have suffered this problem for a while now. I'm using 6.8.0 + ati r128 and it
occurred in previous versions too. Apart from the long term creep effect noted
by Eric, I've found some apps bring out the symptoms very quickly: just browsing
through the menus in emacs (cvs) (no matter which toolkit) can _sometimes_ make
the memory usage of X jump by many 10s of megs at a time. Eventually emacs
always triggers the problem and causes X to eat up all available memory. Opening
a large book with gpdf (but not xpdf) _always_ eats up almost the whole lot
(512MB) straight away. Closing the offending app causes X to freeze (including
the mouse cursor), a lot of swapping seems to happen and then the app is exited
but the X memory usage remains and the WM is sluggish and other apps behave less
well.

Watching xrestop while gpdf is loading a book, I saw that the only noticeable
activity was a steady increase in the "Misc" column which grew to > 60000 in
parallel with top reporting X's memory usage growing beyond 450 MB. The Option
XaaNoPixmapCache had no effect. 

It seems this bug has appeared in xfree86 on debian and in xorg on ubuntu too.

http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2004/12/msg00393.html          
     
     
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