XFree86 problem?

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Thu May 27 21:36:56 PDT 2004


On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 10:21:05PM +0400, Schizik wrote:
> 
> > > This is output from "top"
> > > As you may notice XFree86 ate 331Mb memory.
> > > After some time it will die after swap_pager_getswapspace(9): failed
> > > This happens daily, after about 8-10 hours of work.
> > > System is 5.2-CURRENT (as of 14-May), same behaviour was on 5.2.1-R
> > > 4.8-R worked fine
> >
> > Use ports/x11/xrestop to find out which program that you're running is
> > leaking all that memory in the server.
> 
> Hello!
> Thank you for your advice!
> But it is not helping!
> 
> Currently top shows:
> 703 root     106    0   127M 26580K RUN      7:44 21.14% 21.14% XFree86
> 
> xrestop:
> Pixmaps:    5196K total, Other:     101K total, All:    5297K total
> 1200000    33   11    2   69   51     3161K      4K   3166K   ?   KDE Desktop
> [all other entries are less than 1M]
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> AL.
> 
> ps. please CC me

Is it just the "I have a 64MB video card" syndrome you're worried
about?  i.e. the memory resources allocated by X include the video
RAM, but those 64MB do not include actual system RAM.

Kris

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