Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 13:50:20 -0400 From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org> To: Craig Boston <craig@xfoil.gank.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: (continued) XFree86 problem? Message-ID: <20040617175020.GF15918@green.homeunix.org> In-Reply-To: <200406170927.38606.craig@xfoil.gank.org> References: <200406161455.13175.lesha@intercaf.ru> <200406161026.57921.craig@xfoil.gank.org> <20040617010502.GB90050@xor.obsecurity.org> <200406170927.38606.craig@xfoil.gank.org>
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On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 09:27:38AM -0500, Craig Boston wrote: > On Wednesday 16 June 2004 08:05 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > Does xrestop show anything for you (it didn't for the OP, but it may > > not be the same problem)? > > Nothing really useful: > > (top) > 769 root 104 0 441M 416M RUN 576:24 20.31% 20.31% XFree86 > > (xrestop) > xrestop - Display: localhost:0 > Monitoring 36 clients. XErrors: 0 > Pixmaps: 30123K total, Other: 1003K total, All: 31127K total > > Glancing through the list of clients, I don't see any that look obviously > wrong. All of them correspond to currently running processes. There is only > 1 unknown but it doesn't seem to be taking up much memory: > > res-base Wins GCs Fnts Pxms Misc Pxm mem Other Total PID Identifier > 4200000 6 39 1 6 27 192K 2K 194K ? <unknown> > > So if it's a client resource leak, it's not one that xrestop can detect... > Also, usage as reported by xrestop has gone down by 25M since my post > yesterday (I have a lot less running now), but the XFree86 process is still > at 416 resident -- only a 4M drop. > > It could just be XFree86 being overly aggressive with its pixmap cache, but I > don't know how to check that and/or tune it to more reasonable values. At the least, you can get a very distant overview by mounting /proc and looking at the /proc/<pid>/map of the X server. It should give you a reasonable amount of information on at least whether all your memory is being used by anonymous memory, or device mappings, or file mappings... -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''''''''''\ <> green@FreeBSD.org \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own. \,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,\
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