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PostPosted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 4:54 pm    Post subject: xorg 7.2 memory leak [Solved] Reply with quote

Ok, so xorg is really enjoying the ram on my system. I have been having to restart X after one to two days of running because it gets up to 150MB to 200MB of ram. I'm using xorg-7.2 with KDE 3.5.6.

top shows X currently using 18.75% of my memory which is 187MB.
htop shows X using 8.3% of my memory (83MB).
xrestop only shows 43MB of resources used by X.

X memory usage went from 150MB to 175MB overnight...ie computer just sitting there, with a couple of programs that I run 24/7.

I didn't have this problem when I was on xorg-7.1.1 and I didn't notice it after switching to 7.2, but within a week or so. What gives?


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PostPosted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 1:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I definitely agree that this problem exists since upgrading to xorg 7.2... After running for about 2 days, top reports:

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  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
26468 root      15   0  660m 375m 6760 S    2 18.7  48:27.33 X


Restarting my KDE session doesn't help, but Ctrl-shift-bksp does.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 3:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah logging out did no good for me either. I did "/etc/init.d/xdm restart" instead.

My brother has also confirmed that X on his box is using up ~125MB and has been up since this morning. So there is definitely something going on here.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 12:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i have the same problem, but with xorg-server 1.1.1-r1 (included by xorg-x11 7.1)

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F   UID   PID  PPID PRI  NI    VSZ   RSS WCHAN  STAT TTY        TIME COMMAND
4     0  6137  6134  15   0 1053916 819788 -    SLs+ tty7      65:08 /usr/bin/X :0 -audit 0 -auth /var/gdm/:0.Xauth vt7

it's using 800mb 8O 8O 8O
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 6:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

BUMP!

After using X for 24hrs, memory was up to 200MB. Guess I'll be doing daily restarts of the X server. Anyone know what the culprit might be?
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 3:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

maybe freetype? It recently got bumped (in ~x86 at least). If you look at the freetype change logs (not the portage change logs) you'll see that various memory leaks were fixed
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 5:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just upgraded freetype from 2.1.10-r2 to 2.3.1. I'll report back after watching the memory usage for a bit.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 3:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

upgrade fontconfig as well. The old version doesn't work properly with the newer freetype
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 11:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I upgraded to the newest freetype and now my fonts are all distorted and blury.And in the font section in Control Center the check box for anti-alising has three positions.Anybody have any idea what the problem is?


EDIT:Sorry I posted this in the wrong topic By Mistake. :(
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 12:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i've always always had this problem... even back in the xfree days.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 1:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

First off, upgrading freetype and fontconfig to their newest versions (2.3.1 and 2.4.2) and then restarting the X server has seemed to fix the memory leak. My X memory usage is now at a reasonable level.

When I upgraded my freetype, my fonts also became really blurry. I am running KDE-3.5.6 and the anti-aliasing settings just needed to be set again.

Under kcontrol -> Fonts, I have "Use anti-aliasing for fonts" check and under the Configure button, I have hinting style set to full and no other options set. Now I have fonts that look just like they did before the freetype upgrade.

I'm going to go ahead and mark this thread as solved unless this isn't working for anyone else.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 1:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Glad to see this fixed. I might try Xorg 7.2 out myself now.

For the font issues, this thead might be some help. I guess there are major differences between the 2.3.x version and previous ones.

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 2:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Freetype did have a memory leak. You'll be interested to read this blog post by Flameeyes regarding the issue(s) of Freetype..
http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2007/02/08/freetype-needed-love-i-gave-it-to-it
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 1:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

slithy wrote:
First off, upgrading freetype and fontconfig to their newest versions (2.3.1 and 2.4.2) and then restarting the X server has seemed to fix the memory leak. My X memory usage is now at a reasonable level.
is that really true after some time has passed? because I am seeing X now using amount of memory it never used before 7.2. And its growing.
slithy wrote:

I'm going to go ahead and mark this thread as solved unless this isn't working for anyone else.
I don't think its solved.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 5:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

So it seems like I spoke too soon. For the 4 or 5 hours that I let X run, the memory wasn't growing, but then it started to grow an hour or so after that. It gain another 40MB over night :(.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 7:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

May I recommend running
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dev-util/valgrind
on the suspected memory leaker?
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 8:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Phenax wrote:
May I recommend running
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dev-util/valgrind
on the suspected memory leaker?
would X even run under valgrind? I think it will be just too slow to have any use. And typically the current X leak (X using like 500MB of RAM) is seen after 5-6 hours of usage.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 8:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

devsk wrote:
Phenax wrote:
May I recommend running
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dev-util/valgrind
on the suspected memory leaker?
would X even run under valgrind? I think it will be just too slow to have any use. And typically the current X leak (X using like 500MB of RAM) is seen after 5-6 hours of usage.


Infact it does...I just did a "valgrind startx" and it doesn't feel any different to me. I'll let it run for a while and see what valgrind reports.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 8:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ubuntu forms are buzzing about this as well. One post suggest it may be related to AIGLX

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It appears to be associated with AIGLX (which, as I understand it, is compiled with X.org as of Edgy). When I use a normal X session sans AIGLX with Gnome, the memory consumption seems pretty normal.

Still high for X though. Is this a bug that's been reported?
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 8:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

BorgDrone2 wrote:
Ubuntu forms are buzzing about this as well. One post suggest it may be related to AIGLX

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It appears to be associated with AIGLX (which, as I understand it, is compiled with X.org as of Edgy). When I use a normal X session sans AIGLX with Gnome, the memory consumption seems pretty normal.

Still high for X though. Is this a bug that's been reported?
how do you run a "normal X session"? Does option AIGLX has to be set to 'FALSE' for that?

aiglx patch now is part of 7.2, so it is possible. But that codepath was enabled with
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Option         "AIGLX" "true"
in ServerLayout section fo xorg.conf . And its not set on my box.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 9:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

BorgDrone2 wrote:
Ubuntu forms are buzzing about this as well. One post suggest it may be related to AIGLX

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It appears to be associated with AIGLX (which, as I understand it, is compiled with X.org as of Edgy). When I use a normal X session sans AIGLX with Gnome, the memory consumption seems pretty normal.

Still high for X though. Is this a bug that's been reported?


No version of Ubuntu is running 7.2. I am running Feisty on my laptop and it is still using 7.1.1.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 4:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

So after letting X nibble on my memory till it was over 100MB, I shut down the X server and took a look at the valgrind output, which didn't show any leaks. I'm no expert with valgrind, so if someone else know how to spot the leaks better, jump on it.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

has anybody found a fix yet? my X usage currently:
Code:

PID   USER     PR  NI  VIRT   RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
14568 root     16  0  1061m  471m  12m S    2  23.5  38:32.12 X
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 8:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

devsk wrote:
has anybody found a fix yet?


I've downgraded to xorg-server-1.1.1-r4 as a temporary solution.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 8:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

is there anybody here who has seen the problem and not using nvidia card? I have another machine with integrated i945 card, which doesn't show this problem with xorg-server 1.2:
Code:
2718 root      15   0  507m  49m   9m S    1  2.4   4:25.32 X
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