Xorg memory leak

[Peter Jeremy]

On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 11:26:33AM -0500, Coleman Kane wrote:
>I'm running into some weird problem where the memory usage of Xorg will
>keep increasing and increasing as time goes on. I first noticed teh
>problem when I had a long-running process inside of gnome-terminal that
>was constantly dumping lines of data to stdout. Eventually the memory
>usage of the Xorg process would spiral out of control (Virtual Size in
>excess of 6GB). Upon reaching maximum memory utilization, X clients
>begin to die with BadAlloc errors and the only way to fix the problem is
>to stop Xorg and then restart it.

This could also be caused by a resource leak or deliberate action by a
client.  Firefox in particular will "cache" all images in the X server
and this can make the X server bloat alarmingly (though the biggest
size I've seen is 1.5GB).

Have you tried exiting from long-running clients to identify if the
problem is on the server or client side?

-- 
Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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