Bug 16574

Summary:	Xorg 1.4.2 leaking memory
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Bráulio Barros de Oliveira <brauliobo>
Component:	Server/General	Assignee:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	Linux (All)
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Description Bráulio Barros de Oliveira 2008-06-30 18:58:06 UTC

I'm running X from ArchLinux distribution version 1.4.2 togheter with KDE 4.1 from SVN. The bug appeared also when runnnig KDE 4.0.5.
The system activity from KDE show me when I login thought kdm that X process uses more than 40mb. When running it a few hours it increases the memory usage to over 90mb.
It's important to note that i'm using the nvidia proprietary driver.
Also, when composite is enabled (kwin desktop effects) it leaks more memory, i mean, leak faster.

What can I do to track the problem?

Comment 1 Peter Hutterer 2008-07-02 01:29:51 UTC

Can you cross-check with Bug 14639 please? may be a dupe.

Comment 2 Bráulio Barros de Oliveira 2008-07-02 11:11:52 UTC

Peter, I'm not sure how to run the strings command, i've tried
$ strings /dev/sda6  |fgrep org.freedesktop.DBus.Local|wc
57      57    1540

/dev/sda6 is the swap device, but actually i'm not using any swap.

i've tried from /dev/mem, and got:
bash-3.2# strings /dev/mem  |fgrep org.freedesktop.DBus.Local|wc
    140    1244   27183

Tips please?
bráulio

Comment 3 Bráulio Barros de Oliveira 2008-07-02 11:15:38 UTC

Uhm, actually running 
$ strings /dev/mem  |fgrep org.freedesktop.DBus.Local

returned a lot of repeateds org.freedesktop.DBus.Local, each one on a single line.
Does that confirm the other bug?

Comment 4 Peter Hutterer 2008-07-02 22:22:22 UTC

> --- Comment #3 from Bráulio Barros de Oliveira <brauliobo@gmail.com>  2008-07-02 11:15:38 PST ---
> Uhm, actually running 
> $ strings /dev/mem  |fgrep org.freedesktop.DBus.Local
> 
> returned a lot of repeateds org.freedesktop.DBus.Local, each one on a single
> line.
> Does that confirm the other bug?


Yep, marking as duplicate.

Comment 5 Peter Hutterer 2008-07-03 00:15:35 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 14639 ***

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