Bug#326956: xserver-xorg: Memory leak
Hi everyone,
I wish to add some information about this issue, I'm using Testing on a
Tyan S2460 with 2 GB memory and a nvidia Geforce4 MX440/64 MB, 2.6.18,
official Xorg server from testing and I encounter very high leaks with
nvidia driver 1.0.9639-1 (nvidia-glx-legacy-96xx package from unstable).
So I used the standard/open source nv driver and encounter the same
issue, but leak grows slower.
I use gdm and Xfce4 which could be linked to the issue.
After about more than 3d uptime, Xorg use now 12.30 % memory (12.78 %
now after just 4 to 5 hours).
With nvidia driver, after 4d uptime, it was about 35 % memory.
I don't open more window or workspace, and memory consumption always
grows while I'm not behind the computer, with a mere blank screensaver.
Some memory seems to be never freed whatever I close as many
windows/programs as I want.
I jusy have one background image which never change.
As some people talk about this here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=440038 .
and here:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-537634-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-xorg+memory+leak-start-75.html
It seems than XopenDisplay/XCloseDisplay sequence is potentially, and
partially, responsible for the leak.
Note than xrestop don't shows so much "unknow" identifier in my case.
(This bug is of course for xserver-xorg-core package)
Regards.
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