On Wednesday 03 October 2001 14.55, Philipp Thomas wrote:
* 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.
Well, what would you suspect? X keeps consuming more and more memory, on the scale of about 1.5 - 2 percentage points every time I change desktop, until it's consumed all available memory, including swap in the system, at which point it crashes. I just ran window maker, and although I could see the memory comsumption going up, it was much slower than when I ran KDE. But the problem was there too. Anders