potential dapper xorg memory leak

[Me - Atlantic]

On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 15:53 -0500, C Hamel wrote:
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> On Monday 17 April 2006 06:02, ruscook wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > As you can see, xorg has decided to use 200mega byte of virtual memory
> > and evolution and epiphany have also gone mad. At the same time I've
> > lost the use of the shift and control keys i.e. they don't modify other
> > keys at all but alt still works. - A reboot of X i.e. ctrl-alt-backspace
> > fixes this.
> >
> > Here's the top output for these apps.
> >
> > 8228 root      15   0  200m  22m 5384 S 22.4  2.3  49:11.02 Xorg
> > 7523 ruscook   15   0  148m  48m  12m S  3.5  4.8   5:40.23 epiphany
> > 7527 ruscook   15   0  234m  72m  16m S  0.2  7.2   0:37.08
> > evolution-2.6
> >
> > Does anyone else have this problem?
> >
> > Kind Regards Russell
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> At the risk of sounding like the proverbial 'broken record' --what's a 
> record??-- I discovered some time back that if one is using klipper, it is 
> probably a good idea to disable the 'Prevent empty clipboard' setting.  The 
> behaviour you describe is along the line of what I was experiencing prior to 
> disabling it.  KDE has had a long-standing problem with this, running over 
> several releases.
> 
> If you're not running klipper, please accept my apologies/condolences. ;-)
> 
> FWIW...
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If you're running Ubuntu, then, yes.  My laptop slowed to a crawl with
only gnome, firefox, and evolution running...  The solution? I switched
my desktop to fluxbox on the laptop... loads are an order of magnitude
faster, and response is equally as impressive... Now, if I could just
get fluxbox fonts to be large enough to be seen with the naked eye, I'd
be much happier