(continued) XFree86 problem?

[AK]

On Thursday 17 June 2004 05:05, you wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 10:26:57AM -0500, Craig Boston wrote:
> > On Wednesday 16 June 2004 05:55 am, AK wrote:
> > > This really sucks
> > > And no one responded so far ;-(
> > >
> > > top:
> > >   615 root      96    0   538M   252M select   7:45  1.07%  1.07%
> > > XFree86
> >
> > All I can say is it's not an isolated problem:
> >
> >   769 root      96    0   442M   420M select 432:31  5.22%  5.22% XFree86
> >
> > I have 96M of video memory total (dual head, a 64MB nv and a 32MB mga).
> > xrestop shows about 55M used by pixmaps.  That still leaves over 250M of
> > memory unaccounted for.
> >
> > It seems to slowly grow over time, so I still suspect a memory leak
> > somewhere. I've just gotten in the habit of restarting X every week or
> > so...  (note: this is with XFree86 4.4, installed from a test version of
> > the port someone posted a while back.  Same thing happened with 4.3 as
> > well).
>
> Does xrestop show anything for you (it didn't for the OP, but it may
> not be the same problem)?

Hello there, Kris!

xrestop - Display: localhost:0
          Monitoring 24 clients. XErrors: 0
          Pixmaps:    5876K total, Other:     147K total, All:    6024K total

it looks exactly as described, if I will do something memory consuming
under X (compilation for example) - this goobal will grow very fast

>
> Kris

Cheers,
        AL.