Xorg 7.0-rc1 and EXA (radeon 9200)

Eric Anholt eta at lclark.edu
Mon Oct 31 02:46:22 PST 2005


On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 18:54 +0900, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:30:53 +0100 Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list at drzeus.cx>
> babbled:
> 
> > Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> > > On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 08:33:55 +0100 Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list at drzeus.cx>
> > > babbled:
> > >
> > >   
> > >> It would seem that something leaks memory though. If I keep mapping and
> > >> unmapping windows I gradually see the pixmap memory rising. When I hit
> > >> the size of my graphics card (64 MB) things deteriorate very quickly.
> > >> Who's the most likely culprit? X or xcompmgr? The latter seems more
> > >> likely since the pixmaps are freed once I kill xcompmgr.
> > >>     
> > >
> > > it could also just be vram fragmentation - but i woudl look at xcompmgr
> > > first. but it could be xcomposite itself too. have u tried xrestop to see
> > > who is allocating all the pixmaps? (or who xresources thinks they belong
> > > to) ?
> > >
> > >   
> > 
> > xrestop just says unknown:
> > 
> > 4600000 0 1 0 49 850 42342K 19K 42362K ? <unknown>
> 
> ok - then this is likely xcomosite based allocation. possibly xcompmgr. w'ed
> need to modify xcompmgr to make a window with a name/clas or a title for
> xrestop to display useful info if it is xcompmgr (no need to show the window -
> simply create it and set properties).

I already did this in CVS.

-- 
Eric Anholt                                     eta at lclark.edu
http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/              anholt at FreeBSD.org
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