potential dapper xorg memory leak

[Russell Cook]

Hi Vince
true, but I haven't yet repeated the loss of control/shift so will have
to wait until I can duplicate.... I think it was just part of my X
memory issue.

Regards Russell

On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 19:46 +0200, Vincent Trouilliez wrote: 

> On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 21:02 +1000, 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?
> 
> 
> The fact that Xorg or anything uses lots of "virtual" memory is not a
> problem, it's a feature (I have similar figures on my machine).
> The "virtual" memory is not at all an indication of how much physical
> RAM is actually being used. Memory management in Linux is very
> complex...
> 
> However the fact that you lost the use of the Shift and Control keys is
> definitely a bug !
> You should file a bug report about it so hopefully it can be fixed in
> time.
> 
> --
> Vince
> 
> 

Kind Regards Russell
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Kind Regards Russell
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