Bug 17955 – Memory leak when running GLX apps in Gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r2

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description James Bowlin 2003-03-21 15:45:40 UTC]

This is the same bug as reported in bug #15935.  Under that bug I posted a patch 
that fixed the leak in gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r1.  I just installed gentoo-sources 
2.4.20-r2 and the bug is still there.  Not only that but the mm/page_alloc.c file has 
changed so the patch I posted no longer applies. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. open control_center -> appearance_&_themes -> screensaver 
2. click on various GLX screen savers 
3. watch available RAM disappear 
Actual Results:  
Availabe RAM decreases significantly. 

Expected Results:  
Available RAM should be about the same after I check out various GLX screen savers. 

I am using Nvidia 3123 drivers. 
 
I classified this as "Major" because I can't use GLX while the leak exists. 
 
portage 2.0.47-r10 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r2) 
================================================================= 
System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.60GHz 
GENTOO_MIRRORS=" ftp://mirror.iawnet.sandia.gov/pub/gentoo/ 
ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo 
http://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo/" 
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config 
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config 
/usr/share/config" 
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" 
PORTDIR="/usr/portage" 
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" 
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" 
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" 
USE="gnome sdl gpm motif -3dnow -aalib -acl -acpi -afs -alsa -apache2 apm arts atlas 
-avi berkdb -bonobo -cana cdr -cjk crypt cups dga -directfb -doc dvd -encode -esd 
-ethereal -ev6 fbcon flash -freewnn -gb -gd gdbm -ggi gif -knome -gps gtk -gtk2 
-gtkhtml -guile -icc -icc-pgo imap imlib -innodb -ipv6 java jikes jpeg -junit kde -kerberos 
-lcms ldap -leim -libg++ -libgda libwww -matrox mamildir -mikmod mmx -mozilla mpeg 
mule -mysql -nas ncurses -nls oav -oci8 -odbc oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pda 
pdflib perl pic plotutils png pnp -postgres python qt qtmt quicktime readline ruby -samba 
-sasl -scanner -slang -slp -snmp -socks5 spell sse ssl -static svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff 
truetype -usb -voodoo3 -wavelan wmf X -xface xml xml2 xmms xv -seo zlib x86" 
COMPILER="gcc3" 
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3  -pipe" 
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3  -pipe" 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" 
MAKEOPTS="-j2" 
AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" 
FEATURES="sandbox ccache"

[Comment 1 Jay Pfeifer (RETIRED) 2003-03-23 13:57:55 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 15935 ***