Memory leak in xorg-6.8.1?

[Anton Markov]

On April 8, 2005 05:56, Hermann Himmelbauer wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 April 2005 00:03, Anton Markov wrote:
> > Hermann Himmelbauer wrote:
> > > When heavily working with the Adobe Reader the swap space gets filled
> > > up and the machine is getting very slow.
> > >
> > > When closing the Adobe Reader the RSS-size stays roughly the same.
> > >
> > > It seems that also other applications, like Firefox trigger this
> > > problem, when surfing a lot, the XOrg memory usage is getting high,
> > > although when closing Firefox there is also memory freed - but not all.
> > >
> > > Maybe that there are some bugs in the Adobe Reader/Firefox but to my
> > > mind this is also a XOrg problem.
> >
> > It's caused by using a cursor theme with animated cursors :(
> >
> > See: <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1043>
>
> Thank you for your answer, it seems it's just like you suspected. If I use
> no windows manager (=no animated cursor) the problem is gone.
>
> Is there any fix for this?
>
> As I am currently using Adobe Reader a lot, I have to restart X ~ once a
> day as the whole swapspace gets filled up...

Take a look at the Debian bugzilla entry linked in comment 2 of that bug. It 
talks extensively about this problem, and concludes that the solution is not 
using animated cursors:

<http://bugs.debian.org/281050>

While this is hardly a mission-critical bug, it is annoying.

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