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Re: [SLE] X 4.1 memory leak
  • From: philippt@xxxxxxxxxxx (Philipp Thomas)
  • Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 21:20:53 +0200
  • Message-id: <33pmrtgu9cedim02gp7jprsqndvi46s0r9@xxxxxxx>
* Anders Johansson [Wed, 3 Oct 2001 15:09:45 +0200]:

>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.

Well, then maybe its more a problem of the window manager than of X. But I'll
ask my colleagues who are core XFree86 developers and should have an answer or
at least an explanation.

Philipp

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