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Posted: Dec. 06 2005,15:02 QUOTE
Hi all,

a month now I am very pleased with DSL (started with 1.5). The only problem I have is a memory leak in XVesa. Since I can't use Xfbves on my very old machine (Pentium I 89 MHz with 67MB of RAM) which does not have this mem leak problem (according to posts in forums). I was wondering if V2 of dsl has solved this issue of leaking mem in XVesa. Any answers?  

Testing it ofcourse is the answer, but I just do not want to mess up my tiny comp.

Thanks in advance!
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Posted: Dec. 06 2005,21:32 QUOTE
Hi all again,

tested DSL-2.0 on another pc and indeed Xvesa still has the memory leak. Just open some shells and start "top" in them. From that time on the memory usage of Xvesa increases. After a few hours you can see quite a reasonable amount of extra memory used by Xvesa. Is there anyone who has the answer to this? Like I said, Xfbdev does not work on my PC.

Thanks again
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Posted: Dec. 06 2005,23:04 QUOTE
When are we supposed to see such memory leaks.
I have been running

watch -n 60 pmap 570 | grep -w total

where 570 happens to be the pid of the running Xvesa.
This has been running for over an hour and no leakage.

I have this running on two older machines a laptop and a white box, one a pentium and one a celeron. No leaks.

Maybe you have a memory leak on your machine?
Maybe your machine is not Vesa compliant?
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Posted: Dec. 06 2005,23:19 QUOTE
The whole VESA memory leak issue has been discussed at the XVesa author's web site.

In his opinion, the "memory leaks" are caused by the user's programs that are running and not releasing memory properly and are not caused by his program.

But these were old comments so maybe he has improved the situation since then. I dunno.
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Posted: Dec. 06 2005,23:34 QUOTE
Hi
Memory leak?  Maybe, maybe not.  I run my systems for days,weeks, months without rebooting.  If I use Xvesa it is not possible.  They will freeze up after a few days.  If I use Xfbdev I have no problems.  If you run top every day or so you will see that Xvesa slowly consumes all available memory.  I don't know if it is application specific but I have no such problem with Xfbdev.  As the old joke goes "If it hurts when you do that, don't do that".  So I don't.
Good luck
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