xorg memory leak

[let rec]

The bug seems to be gone after a recent bunch of KDE related updates!
Is there any way to know what exactly has been changed there?
I'm keen to get to the bottom of the issue.

On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 12:42 AM, let rec <shweduke at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm experiencing a huge memory leak in xorg.
> Sometimes virtual memory size gets up to 12 Gb (I'm not sure how it's
> possible on a machine with 2Gb of memory and 2Gb of swap).
> My system gets sluggish and I have to restart xorg once a day, which feels
> a bit win95ish.
> My setup is: Kubuntu 11.10 64 bit, KDE 4.7.4, ati mobility radeon x1350.
> I've been hoping that fix of
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=271934#c43 would resolve the issue,
> but it seems it's not the case.
> I tried to kill and restart top memory KDE processes to see if the leak is
> caused by one of them, but it's not the case either.
> My current top output sorted by mem usage looks like:
>
> top - 00:40:51 up 1 day,  6:54,  9 users,  load average: 0.20, 0.18, 0.15
> Tasks: 141 total,   1 running, 140 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu(s): 30.6%us, 11.5%sy,  0.0%ni, 57.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  1.0%si,
> 0.0%st
> Mem:   2056332k total,  1985548k used,    70784k free,      804k buffers
> Swap:  1998844k total,   101084k used,  1897760k free,   191648k cached
>
>
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+
> COMMAND
>
>  29075 root      20   0 8373m 692m  29m S   29 34.5  11:22.99
> Xorg
>
> 29324 user      20   0 1370m 602m  17m S    6 30.0   7:19.01
> firefox
>
> 29231 user      20   0 1138m  98m  25m S    2  4.9   2:27.75
> plasma-desktop
>
> 30227 user      20   0  746m  66m  20m S   16  3.3   7:54.23
> vlc
>
> 29385 user      20   0  581m  49m  19m S    0  2.5   0:11.78
> kopete
>
> 29219 user      20   0  653m  48m  13m S   17  2.4   3:12.64
> kwin
>
> 29387 user      20   0  388m  41m 6272 S    4  2.1   3:38.66
> plugin-containe
>
> 29383 user      20   0  474m  34m  17m S    0  1.7   0:24.46
> konversation
>
> 29306 user      20   0  427m  30m  15m S    5  1.5   2:55.08
> konsole
>
> 29257 user      20   0  680m  27m  11m S    0  1.4   0:03.98
> krunner
>
> 29201 user      20   0  706m  22m  12m S    0  1.1   0:04.03
> kded4
>
> 29272 user      20   0  647m  20m  10m S    0  1.0   0:00.53
> kmix
>
> 29209 user      20   0  286m  13m 9756 S    0  0.7   0:00.32
> kwalletd
>
> 29416 user      20   0  253m  12m 8676 S    0  0.6   0:00.28
> kwalletmanager
>
> 29276 user      20   0  260m  12m 8528 S    0  0.6   0:00.39
> klipper
>
> 29269 user      20   0  340m  11m 8152 S    0  0.6   0:00.21
> polkit-kde-auth
>
>
> Does it look sane?
> Can someone recommend any way to track root cause of the issue down?
> I'm ok to install debug symbols and debug, but not sure what is the most
> efficient approach would be.
> Any ideas would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew
>
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