Xorg process taking large amount of memory

[shuri]

Had this for a while; shared memory usage slowly but surely keeps going up by the Xorg process and never gets freed.
Running KDE 5 with systemd and latest stable Xorg.

22h uptime:

[mike155]

Which graphics chip do you have? Nvidia?

[shuri]

[mike155]

It seems that your Xorg processes allocate 4.8 GB of RAM. I agree that this is too much. Xorg uses approx. 200MB on my machines.

• Did you start any games or programs that use OpenGL and allocate lots of RAM for pixel buffers, etc?
  
  
• You wrote that you use the x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel driver. That driver is a bit outdated and may have issues. Switch to the modesetting driver.
  
  
• You may want to re-read https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Intel and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/intel_graphics. Check your configuration. Intel drivers improved a lot over the last years. Options and 'best pratice' recommendations changed considerabily.
  

If the hints above don't solve the problem, please post:

• The output of 'emerge --info'
  
• The kernel config (either '.config' or decompress /proc/config.gz and post that file)
  
• /etc/X11/xorg.conf and all files in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/
  
• The log file /var/log/Xorg.0.log
  

Please use wgetpaste to post large files like the kernel config or /var/log/Xorg.0.log.

[marko778]

I'm not going to start another post so I'll tag along,

Got almost the same problem. X over few hours starts using 70% of memory which is stupid.

I got 2 monitors, intel graphics (x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel - 1.99.917.), running last stable version of Xorg.

This is now a big problem since I'm using gentoo as my work OS and we have strict policy of software usage so I can not just go to another KDE or OS, reinsatlling gentoo is not an option for obvious reasons

Since this is my work station I can not post so many files so if nothing comes out of this I'll try to post the rest.

First time using this forum so sorry for wrong posting, and again sorry for tagging along [/code]

htop:

[mike155]

Hi marko778,

welcome to the Gentoo forums!

1. Your output of 'emerge --info' shows an Intel i7-2600 CPU. That's a Sandy Bridge CPU, isn't it? According to this article, VIDEO_CARDS should be "intel i965". Change VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/portage/make.conf and run
   

   Code:

   emerge --update --deep --newuse -av world

   
   
2. The x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel driver is deprecated and may have issues. Switch to the modesetting driver. Look at this article, section 'Modesetting DDX'. Unmerge x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel.
   
   
3. Not related to the problem you reported, but still recommended: you could migrate to libinput. After that, uninstall x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev and remove all 'InputSection' entries from your xorg.conf.
   

Mike

[sao98021]

on my sandybridge (i72670qm) with videocards= intel i965 but without USE='glamor', xf86-video-intel not installed, what is installed is libva-intel-driver xorg is only using 1% of memory.

but i do not have 20-modesetting.conf because this is an optimus sytem (meaning i also have nvidia listed in cards, and that driver installed), and bumblebee uses dummy.conf instead, system is using mesa instead of glamor.

wondering if i should switch to glamor, and somehow getting bumblebee to work with 20-modesetting..

but i guess if its not broken why break it, because everything is still working as expected without xf86-video-intel, and without telling it to load something else, how is this working?

i don't really know lol, but nothing has changed with functionality on either the onboard, or dedicated graphics.. is it still using modesetting ddx even though i don't have any conf file in xorg.conf.d, nor the global glamor use flag,, so it'd just be using mesa instead? this shouldnt be the case because modesetting uses glamor for accel instead of mesa..

but then apparently its functioning as expected even though, no driver is being used.. , and it doesn't use the nvidia driver or card until i tell it to,.

going to chuck it up to bumblebee magic.

[marko778]