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Posted: Sep. 12 2005,16:02

Hey guys and gals,

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).

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hawki

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Posted: Sep. 12 2005,17:18

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 luck

cbagger01

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Posted: Sep. 12 2005,17:46

What graphical applications do you have up and running on DSL?

The type of application may also have an effect on the XVesa memory "leakage"

clivesay

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Posted: Sep. 12 2005,18:14

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.

Code Sample

dsl@mp3server:~$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 255192 244640 10552 0 2912 199356
-/+ buffers/cache: 42372 212820
Swap: 0 0 0
dsl@mp3server:~$ uptime
13:06:32 up 6 days, 18:08, 0 users, load average: 0.95, 0.30, 0.10

looks like there is a leak happening.

Chris

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Posted: Sep. 12 2005,18:38

Chris, that doesn't look too bad to me. You're actually only using 42mb...the other 200 are just cached.

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