Over time, the 'X' process sucks up all available memory. After restarting X, it uses 20-25MB of memory. It grows continuously until it hits around 400MB, when the system becomes so slow, I have to restart X. Here is an example of the current memory usage: USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 10551 35.5 26.3 296824 272740 ? RL Feb23 2041:38 /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp :0 vt7 -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-Jhx2Lo I have an NVidia GeForce FX5200. I have tried both the nv driver, and the nvidia driver. Both have the same problem. I have tried different options in the xorg.conf, to no avail. At first I thought it grew with more applications running, but it appears to be mostly affected by how long X has been running. # emerge --info Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.15-gent oo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=pentium4 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share /config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/ mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=pentium4 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://distro.ibiblio.o rg/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X a52 aac aci acpi aim alsa apm arts audiofile avi bash-completion berk db bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr crypt cups curl dbus dga directfb divx4linux dv dvdrea d eds emboss encode ethereal exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg flash foomaticdb fortra n gd gdbm gif glut gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 idn ieee1394 imagemagick imlib ipv6 ja bber java javascript jpeg junit kde lcms libg++ libwww lm_sensors lua mad mikmod mime mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl ogg oggvorbis openal opengl os s pam pcre pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline samba scanner sdl snmp s pell sse ssl svg tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb v4 l vcd videos vorbis xine xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_ glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLA
Please file an upstream bug at bugs.freedesktop.org, xorg product, and post the URL here. You may like to emerge xrestop to track in more detail what's taking up more memory.
