X Server: abused or buggy?

[Alan Coopersmith]

Óscar Fuentes wrote:
> So in your opinion using X as a cache for 500 MB of pixmaps is dumb. I
> tend to agree, but it is reasonable to expect that when the app closes
> and the pixmaps are freed, all that memory is returned to the OS? 

Depends on the malloc() implementation in your libc and how fragmented
your heap is.   X does nothing special beyond free() on the memory.

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