Xorg memory leak

[golfer]

On 5/29/06, easydisk <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
>
> Hi there,
> I think there is a real memory leak with xorg in Ubuntu 6.06
> Here are 2 examples from a machine running xorg for about 1.5 a 2
> day's

I haven't run this long to see this result.  Mine starts out low though:

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 4607 root      15   0 62896  32m 4448 S  0.3  8.6   1:13.98 Xorg

>
> the 'top' command
>
> PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>
> 8849 root      15   0 1612m 699m 1352 S  3.5 69.3  29:59.43 Xorg
>
>
>
> PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>
> 25742 root      15   0 1438m 620m 3828 S  3.0 61.4  38:15.68 Xorg
>
>
>
> the 'free -m' command gives:
>
> total       used       free     shared    buffers
> cached
>
> Mem:          1010        994         15          0         45
> 323
>
> and for swap:
>
> Swap:          964          862        102
>
> Even after running xorg for one night (12 hours) without no big
> application running (only dekstop manager KDE, amsn and xmms) the
> memory usage is growing to 450 Mbyte !
>
> Xorg is becoming slow, stop responing for 4 - 10seconds (even no mouse
> pointer)
>

I've thought so too, but didn't really have anything to compare
against, since I've been running dapper for months.  I've just assumed
it was the latest kde/gnome.

> And I think I'm nog the only one with the problem, see bugs: 36348
> 39825
>
> Is it possible to run xorg 6.90 (from ubuntu 5.10) instead of 7.0 from
> ubuntu 6.06?

not likely as there are too many dependecies.  hopefully, it'll be fixed.

regards,