leakage of memory at a X server

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Thu Mar 4 01:48:38 PST 2004


On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 05:48:58AM +0300, Andrew Muhametshin wrote:
> Who is guilty in leakage of memory: XFree, Gimp or FreeBSD?
> 
> Check up please at itself:
> In gimp-1.3, the image 3000x3000(indexed) should be transformed in 
> "grayscale" and not waiting end of transformation, to apply 
> "autolevels". Thus there will be an leakage of memory at a X server.

I couldn't understand this paragraph.

> I checked on:
> FreeBSD-5.2.1, XFree86-Server-4.3.0_14,  Matrox Millennium II
> FreeBSD-5.2.1, XFree86-Server-4.3 and 4.4, ATI RadeonVE
> FreeBSD-4.8, XFree86-Server-4.3, S3Trio64V+
> 
> Everywhere there was an leakage(outflow)!

Please show us how you are measuring this memory leak.  It's possible
you're misinterpreting the data, or there could be an actual bug.

Kris
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