Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:45:31 -0500 From: Coleman Kane <cokane@FreeBSD.org> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg memory leak Message-ID: <477D2D4B.5050301@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20080103184014.GP947@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <477BBB39.6070208@FreeBSD.org> <20080102182923.GM903@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <477C1750.9050506@FreeBSD.org> <20080103184014.GP947@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 05:59:28PM -0500, Coleman Kane wrote: > >> It seems that while my terminal window remains relatively small (around >> 80x30 characters), there doesn't seem to be any impact. However, if I >> drag the window border to expand the size of it (to like 220x70 or >> something), then it starts to chew up memory from the Xorg process. It >> can sometimes get so bad as to take ~100MB per second at times. Normal >> xterm does not seem to exhibit this behavior. One thing that I've >> noticed is that the memory-eating seems to coincide with the point where >> the gnome-terminal window's redraw rate starts to lag from the window >> being far too large. >> > > That's an interesting comment. Does gnome-terminal have any equivalent > to the '+s' (synchronous) option on xterm and, if so, does that have any > effect? > "gnome-terminal --sync" does this, but it doesn't seem to help any. > >> It won't go back down until Xorg is actually closed. >> > > I think this implies that it's a bug in the X server because otherwise > the resources would be released when the offending client is closed. > > Unfortunately, I think I'm out of ideas on how to track down the > problem, sorry. > > Thanks for the help, this might be an across-the-board Xserver problem, but I was curious if it *might* have some root in some of the latest changes to 8-CURRENT HEAD. I am going to float this on bugs.freedesktop.org and see if anyone else can help. -- Coleman Kane
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