Xorg leaking memory on -current...

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20061030225118.GA10231 at cons.org>, Martin Cracauer writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote on Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 05:01:05PM +0000: 
>> 
>> After a few days my Xorg will have gobbled up most of my RAM and I have
>> to restart it to get my laptop out of VAX11/750 emulation mode.
>> 
>> Has anybody else noticed this ?
>
>I don't run an X11 on a 7-current system.  My 6-stable does certainly
>not show this, the X11 server with Firefox is up for ages.
>
>It is also unusual that you actually see that much of a slowdown,
>which means it is not a plain memory leak (in which case the leaked
>pages would never be touched again, swapped out and not impact
>performance too much).
>
>Can you post the memory map?

Nope.  /proc/$pid/map is "too large" so I don't get to see it :-(

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