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Date:      Thu, 22 Jun 1995 23:44:23 -0700
From:      Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
To:        Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Memory leak somewhere? 
Message-ID:  <199506230644.XAA02292@rah.star-gate.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 Jun 1995 02:30:03 EDT." <199506230630.CAA09279@crh.cl.msu.edu> 

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>>> Charles Henrich said:
 > I've noticed lately that my S3 X server grows continuously (as does my swap
 > utilization) as time goes by, and never shrinks.  Currently my X server proc
     ess
 > looks like so:
 > 
 > root       252  0.0 30.9 11632 9440 ??  I    10:39PM    0:21.43 X :0 (XF86_S
     3)
 > 
 > and has only been running a few hours.  I've talked with the author of the
 > Server and he was astonished when I told him I've seen it as high as 15M of
 > ram.  He claims he never see's this, however he's running it under Linux.  H
     e
 > suggests perhaps there is a problem with something somewhere in FreeBSD. Thi
     s
 > behaviour seems to be new with the 0412-SNAP, although I dont have any
 > proof of this.  This is crazy, I have a 32mb machine, and its performing lik
     e
 > a dog because of this sort of memory usage (!) :(.  On a 16mb machine, if yo
     u
 > run any significant apps you go to swaphell because of the memory usage here
     .
 > Could this be a leak in the kernel malloc, or mmap code or some such?
 > 
 > -Crh
 > 

Perhaps it depends on what you do. I did xman and it bloated up my S3 X Server 
over here.

	Amancio




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