Xorg leaking memory on -current...

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20061031085007.GA1466 at turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>, Peter Jeremy writes
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>On Sun, 2006-Oct-29 17:01:05 +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>>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.
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>>Has anybody else noticed this ?
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>My -current is quite out of date and I don't run normally run X on it
>but my $0.02:
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>Are you using jemalloc or phkmalloc?  Does fiddling with MALLOC_OPTIONS
>have any effect?  Have you hit an edge case somewhere?

jemalloc, MALLOC_OPTIONS=aj

>Do you have any long-running clients?  X clients can store objects in
>the server and some web browsers have been known to simulate Xserver
>leaks.

It certainly correlates with firefox, but restarting firefox does
not relieve the memory pressure.

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