Thread: Xorg Memory Leak
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AndrewX192 is offline AndrewX192
2010-12-20 , 04:44
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Originally Posted by slender View Post
If you have time then could you document this to here:
https://bugs.maemo.org/
Would it really be worth my time finding the exact situation where this issue can be reproduced? I thought future maemo development was dead.

Originally Posted by pycage View Post
Xorg most probably does not leak by itself, but applications leak into Xorg.
If applications use server-side pixmaps to store graphics, they appear in Xorg's memory statistics, instead of the application's.
So it's not Xorg to kill, but the misbehaving application.
So, in theory, closing all my applications and killing hildon should resolve the issue, but I tried this, and ended up with higher Xorg memory usage after restarting hildon. It seems to be that Xorg is holding on to the memory it had reserved for use.
Last edited by AndrewX192; 2010-12-20 at 04:47.