I left my computer on over the weekend (1.5 frugal install). When I came back this morning I noticed that it is using 204MB of Physical Memory and 50MB of swap space. I ran top and found that 174MB of the allocated memory is going to xvesa. Why is X sucking up so many resources when left on? Is this an inherant problem with X or is there a way that this memory leak can be tracked down? I assume shutting down the window manager will free the memory, but the problem will still persist. Any suggestions?
--EDIT-- Restarting X did (of course) free 163MB of physical memory, but the swap space is still in use (but not necessarily by X).Hi Xvesa has a known memory leak in the version DSL uses. It will continue to grow until your system runs out of memory and freezes. I have stopped using it and use Xfbdev instead which does not have the problem.
Good luckWhat graphical applications do you have up and running on DSL?
The type of application may also have an effect on the XVesa memory "leakage"I just checked my mp3 server that only has ftp, vnc and edna running. Here is the surpising results. This is a Frugal install btw.