Graphic drivers and applications

[John Tapsell]

2009/3/5 Lukas Hejtmanek <xhejtman at ics.muni.cz>:
> Hello,
>
> is the graphic driver performing acceleration (for example composite
> operation) able to know for which application is this operation done?
>
> I would like to track down number of pixmaps allocated for particular
> applications and see whether all of them are freed after aplication is closed
> and also to see which applications are leaking pixmap shamelessly.
>
> It seems that xrestop is not working properly. I'm already tracking total
> number of allocated pixmaps for intel driver, according to this tracking, 1000
> pixmaps were freed after closing firefox application, but xrestop reports that
> firefox had only 515 pixmaps.

How new is your xrestop?  I fixed a counting bug in xrestop about 6 months ago.

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