+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #166035 +++ Since I have upgrade to xorg-7.2, X has been eating up memory the longer I run it. I started a thread on the Gentoo Forums and others said they are experiencing the same thing, but it didn't really uncover anything about the cause of the problem. I have documented more details in the thread post about actual ram usage and such. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-537634-highlight-.html Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start X server, 1.2.0 (7.2) 2.Leave it running 3.Check top to see how much memory it eat Actual Results: After about 15 hours of usage, it's using 150MB and when I let my PC stay on overnight, the X usage increases even more, even though I'm not really doing anything with X.
solved it ... kpdf used 300 mb memory ... inside of x ... dont know why .. but it does ....
(In reply to comment #1) > solved it ... kpdf used 300 mb memory ... inside of x Does that really mean the bug is closed? This shouldn't be, or should it?
Well... this bug actually proves nothing about memory leaks. Using RAM, or even increasing RAM usage by some application != memory leak... The RAM is basically there to be used, unused memory is useless waste of money on HW. For detecting memory leaks, we have things like valgrind.
(In reply to comment #3) > The RAM is basically > there to be used, unused memory is useless waste of money on HW. Does this also hold true, when my computer grinds to a halt, because I run it without swap (it's far snappier since I switched off swap), and simply have no memory left, because the X eats about 25% to 50% (after more than a week) of my 2GiB?
