From: imp@boulder.parcplace.com (Warner Losh) Subject: Re: ballooning size of X under xdm Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1993 19:13:11 GMT
In article <1993Feb8.034810.1336@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
farrow@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (J. Scott Farrow) writes:
>Someone asked that question is one of my classes the other day.
>According to Evi Nemeth, the Xserver has monstrous memory leaks. All
>of our undergraduate machines at CU restart the X server every time
>someone logs out to prevent exactly that problem.
The R4 X server had huge leaks. From what I can tell R5 is better,
but I haven't put it under the purify microscope yet. However,
another reason to restart the X server is that even if it didn't have
any memory leaks, it would still grow monotinically. Free never
returns memory to the OS, so you will never see an X server shrink
since it uses malloc/free.
Warner
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