X keeps growing (~1.2Gb)

Kingsley · External Since: May 08, 2007 Posts: 7

Hi-ho,

My X keeps growing.

I know the resident memory size for X includes alot of shared
memory and stuff. It's not the base size that's the problem.

It's that over maybe 4-5 days, the X process ends up with a
a resident process size of 1.2G

top - 07:36:02 up 4 days, 17:02, 4 users, load average: 0.24, 0.47, 0.44
Tasks: 128 total, 1 running, 127 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.2%us, 0.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.1%id, 0.3%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.2%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2059564k total, 2041328k used, 18236k free, 79568k buffers
Swap: 128512k total, 128508k used, 4k free, 131708k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
28746 root 15 0 1384m 1.2g 2176 S 0 60.7 17:23.20 X

When I restart X-Windows, start my usual apps (firefox, thunderbird, gaim,
couple of aterms) it dropped back to about 40M.

Any suggestions?

cheers,
-kt

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Chris Baird · External Since: Apr 27, 2004 Posts: 8

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Kingsley · External Since: May 08, 2007 Posts: 7

On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:47:42 +1000, Chris Baird wrote:

> > When I restart X-Windows, start my usual apps (firefox, thunderbird,
> > gaim, couple of aterms) it dropped back to about 40M. Any suggestions?
>
> The usual debugging tool for this is xrestop, that'll show you what
> application has forgotten about the 2GB of pixmaps it's still holding on
> to

xrestop - Display: localhost:0
Monitoring 24 clients. XErrors: 18
Pixmaps: 549817K total, Other: 135K total, All: 549953K total

Wins GCs Fnts Pxms Misc Pxm mem Other Total PID Identifier
34 115 3 287 337 517917K 14K 517931K 24018 KDE Desktop
179 40 1 1124 269 26713K 12K 26725K 1958 Bon Echo
155 41 1 115 63 2927K 7K 2934K 24090
91 103 1 224 293 1538K 12K 1551K 24020 kicker

Looks like it's KDE!
I'll wager that it's the desktop-background changer.

-kt

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