Bug 2463

Summary: serious memory leak in dualheaded setup
Product: xorg Reporter: Soeren Sonnenburg <bugreports>
Component: Driver/RadeonAssignee: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status: RESOLVED NOTOURBUG QA Contact:
Severity: major    
Priority: high CC: erik.andren, freedesktop-bugzilla
Version: git   
Hardware: Other   
OS: Linux (All)   
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Description Soeren Sonnenburg 2005-02-03 01:07:58 UTC 
when running X in a true dualhead setup, ie. with two separate displays :0 and
:1 (radeon M9 on 1GHz powerbook G4) it continuosly eats memory such that in the
end (after a couple of days) it takes like 800MB and the machine needs to be
restarted because of that.

this memory - leak existed already in xfree86 4.3 times 

resttest.c did not show any memory usage except than a couple of megabytes...
Comment 1 Soeren Sonnenburg 2005-02-03 01:10:51 UTC 
Created attachment 1826 [details]
xorg config with which to reproduce this behaviour
Comment 2 T. Hood 2005-09-26 07:50:36 UTC 
Does the memory leak go away if you turn off accel?
Comment 3 Soeren Sonnenburg 2005-11-29 07:32:13 UTC 
no, it is still there even w/o accel
Comment 4 Erik Andren 2006-04-18 00:21:59 UTC 
Are you still experiencing this issue using a modern version of xorg?
Comment 5 Soeren Sonnenburg 2006-04-18 16:04:44 UTC 
yes, but I've found out that it only appears when I use evolution... so
evolution -via xorg leaks memory... even if I close/kill evolution the memory is
taken and listed by xorg not sure whether this is a bug in xorg though...

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