* 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.