Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 08:40:48 -0700 From: Mike Piatek <mrpiatek@ece.ucsb.edu> To: stable@freebsd.org Cc: dcs@newsguy.com Subject: Re: XFree86 memory leak with new FreeBSD kernel Message-ID: <20000529084048.A1468@epic.resnet.ucsb.edu> In-Reply-To: <39326B0F.EA81A31C@newsguy.com>; from dcs@newsguy.com on Mon, May 29, 2000 at 06:05:19 -0700 References: <39326B0F.EA81A31C@newsguy.com>
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On Mon, 29 May 2000 06:05:19 Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Mike Piatek wrote: > > > > I installed FreeBSD 4.0 when it was released and have not had any problems until > > I did a make world yesterday. Everything seemed to install okay, except today > > when I checked process memory usage, XFree86 4.0 had eaten up over 100mb of > > memory overnight. I thought this might have something to do with using XFree86 4.0, > > so I downgraded to version 3.3.6 and still have the same problem (memory is > > leaking slower, however). I assume that this has something to do with the FreeBSD > > kernel not deallocating when it is supposed to. Any ideas? > > Forgive me for asking, but what evidence do you have of memory leak? A > lot of people make such claims out of plain ignorance of what the memory > stats on top(1) mean. Well, yes, I was looking at top, but I also was looking at how much swap space was being used. Usually in XFree86 4.0, X windows will be "using" about 90-100mb of RAM. When I checked it, that amount had increased to over 225mb of RAM. When I looked at the swap usage, it was up at 90mb (I have 192mb of RAM and was not running any other processes which were using a significant amount of RAM). Most of the other processes were swapped out. Then when I tried to kill X with control-alt-backspace, the entire machine crashed. I have not noticed this with any other binaries, which is why I tried to reinstall version 3.3.6 of XFree86. If no one knows of a fix, I suppose I can go back to 4.0-RELEASE and try again, but things are busy right now and it would be difficult to spend that much time on this. Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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