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Re: [SLE] X 4.1 memory leak
- From: philippt@xxxxxxxxxxx (Philipp Thomas)
- Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 14:55:50 +0200
- Message-id: <ac2mrt0b1n0jsi1l3ieiashml2rvkie4lr@xxxxxxx>
* Anders Johansson [Wed, 3 Oct 2001 04:39:00 +0200]:
>I have found what I think is a tremendous memory leak in X 4.1, and I'm
>wondering if others see what I'm seeing. I'm running 4.1.0-48 from the suse
>ftp site.
Most of that is *not* a memory leak. A memory leak would be if the server
allocates memory, forgets that it allocated it and just allocates new memory.
It's just that there is quite a bit of memory that the X-server allocates/needs
but only frees when it's shut down.
BTW, just look at the amounts of memory netscape, mozilla or staroffice allocate
and you'll see that it dwarfs what the X server took for itself (most on behalf
of applications).
Philipp
--
If builders would build houses like programmers build their
software, the first woodpecker to come along would mean the
end of all civilisation.
>I have found what I think is a tremendous memory leak in X 4.1, and I'm
>wondering if others see what I'm seeing. I'm running 4.1.0-48 from the suse
>ftp site.
Most of that is *not* a memory leak. A memory leak would be if the server
allocates memory, forgets that it allocated it and just allocates new memory.
It's just that there is quite a bit of memory that the X-server allocates/needs
but only frees when it's shut down.
BTW, just look at the amounts of memory netscape, mozilla or staroffice allocate
and you'll see that it dwarfs what the X server took for itself (most on behalf
of applications).
Philipp
--
If builders would build houses like programmers build their
software, the first woodpecker to come along would mean the
end of all civilisation.
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