Looks like Xorg has a memory leak....

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LynZ · Post by **LynZ** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 8:39 am

After days uptime
(X.org + kde3.4)
my box has 450\512 Mb busy, 200 Vb Swap in addition, and the performanceis terrible
I had no other choise except ebooting

What can this be?
kernel 2.6.23-ck2
xorg-x11-6.8.2-r4

Any info more I shall provide?

apmurray · Post by **apmurray** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 9:57 am

maybe anything that you have running - not specifically xorg - perhaps something in kde?

Gergan Penkov · Post by **Gergan Penkov** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 11:24 am

You mean 2.6.13-ck2?
I have some similiar problems with 2.6.13-gentoo2 (which is based on ck, i think), but it is not the ram - my load avarage raises to unbelievable 7.xx sometimes just overnight and I use gnome not kde.
CK-based sources do not work for me since around 2.6.12 some fs-problems (spitting i/o errors on a random single file, which after restart is ok, but the kernel selects another one after some stress work and this going on, although 2.6.12-love1 worked just ok). I think I'll try vanilla or mm, as nitro has some similiar problems also.

kmare · Post by **kmare** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 8:21 pm

gentoo kernel is not based on CK.. it's based on the vanilla kernel with some patches to enable stuff like the bootsplash and security/bug fixes. I think that indeed there are some memory leaks in xorg.. i think they're in the RENDER extention (with the nvidia driver for me). And enabling composite it gets even worse. Restarting X fixes the issue.. I'm waiting for the next xorg and the new 8xxx nvidia driver where things are supposed to be much better.. just hoping for the best

Gergan Penkov · Post by **Gergan Penkov** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 8:41 pm

look here http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-26 ... ml#2698663 but it seems that only ck-base are in gentoo and extras not ::)))

neuron · Post by **neuron** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 10:47 pm

check xrestop and top to see what exactly is taking the memory.

LynZ · Post by **LynZ** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 7:29 pm

seems, like i've foundit! It's the well-known x-cursor-theme bug.

Monkeh · Post by **Monkeh** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 10:30 pm

Gergan Penkov wrote:look here http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-26 ... ml#2698663 but it seems that only ck-base are in gentoo and extras not ::)))

No... Gentoo's ebuild for ck-sources uses the base set of Gentoo patches, the Gentoo patchset contains nothing from the ck patchset.