Bug 17036 - xorg eats all my memory
Summary: xorg eats all my memory
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: xorg
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Server/General (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
: medium critical
Assignee: Xorg Project Team
QA Contact: Xorg Project Team
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Reported: 2008-08-08 04:23 UTC by daedeloth
Modified: 2011-10-15 14:02 UTC (History)
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Attachments
xorg.conf (4.94 KB, application/octet-stream)
2008-08-08 04:23 UTC, daedeloth
no flags Details

Description daedeloth 2008-08-08 04:23:34 UTC
Created attachment 18183 [details]
xorg.conf

After running gnome in xorg (with some kde applications) for a few hours, the xorg memory usage quickly grows to over 1 gb.

Excerpt from "top":

Tasks: 131 total,   2 running, 129 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  8.6%us,  1.3%sy,  0.1%ni, 87.8%id,  1.9%wa,  0.1%hi,  0.1%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   2062512k total,  2040564k used,    21948k free,    15496k buffers
Swap:  1992020k total,    49620k used,  1942400k free,   262624k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            
 3478 root      20   0 1438m 1.3g  12m S    6 63.8   8:37.94 Xorg               
 3800 daedelot  20   0  123m  10m 8532 S    4  0.5   0:12.06 metacity           
    1 root      20   0 10312  752  616 S    0  0.0   0:00.82 init               
    2 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd         

I should point out that I'm using 3 screens on 2 different video cards. I have attached my xorg.conf file.

My knowledge of linux and display components is not that great, so please forgive me if I can't provide the required information. Feel free to contact me for any more questions.


daedelroom:/home/daedeloth# X :1 -version

X.Org X Server 1.4.2
Release Date: 11 June 2008
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux Debian (xorg-server 2:1.4.2-3)
Current Operating System: Linux daedelroom 2.6.26-1-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Jul 30 18:46:19 UTC 2008 x86_64
Build Date: 02 August 2008  10:07:22PM
 
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Comment 1 Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia 2011-10-15 14:02:12 UTC
This is an old bug without sufficient information.  If you are still 
experiencing this issue with recent releases, please provide more information 
(such as running the server under valgrind)


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