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From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
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Subject: Memory leak somewhere?
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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 02:30:03 -0400 (EDT)
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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 process
looks like so:

root       252  0.0 30.9 11632 9440 ??  I    10:39PM    0:21.43 X :0 (XF86_S3)

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.  He
suggests perhaps there is a problem with something somewhere in FreeBSD. This
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 like
a dog because of this sort of memory usage (!) :(.  On a 16mb machine, if you
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

    Charles Henrich     Michigan State University     henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu

                     http://rs560.msu.edu/~henrich/