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Subject:    Bug#1812: marked as done (kfm/X leak alot of memory!)
From:       owner () max ! tat ! physik ! uni-tuebingen ! de (Stephan Kulow)
Date:       1999-09-01 7:48:01
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From:	"Bjarni R. Einarsson" <bre@netverjar.is>
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Subject: kfm/X leak alot of memory!
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I use KDE alot, and kfm especially (I use it for almost all my browsing).
As a result, I have witnessed extreme memory consumption, both in KFM and
the X server itself.

Yesterday, after about 2 days of online-surfing (slashdot etc.),
interspaced with work, where I'm doing frequent searches in a web
database, memory usage of the X process had reached 90MB and memory usage
of the kfm process was high as well - my machine had used up 50MB of it's
swap space - and it has 128MB of RAM!

These numbers stayed constant, even after I had reduced my activities to
*nothing* - having closed all open windows (but not gone to the extreme
of killing kfm...).  Killing kfm freed up /some/ memory, but most of the
memory in use by X stayed allocated.

I have not tested this extensively under any other window manager than
kwm, but expiraments with wmaker and fvwm exhibited the same behavior
(although it may have been less extreme, it's hard to say).  Heavy
web-surfing, preferably on pages with lots of pictures makes the bug rear
it's ugly head the fastest... text only pages didn't do much damage.


My machine is running RedHat 5.2, XFree86-3.3.3.1-2 (the Mach64 server).
I'm testing a snapshot of KDE 1.1.2, downloaded from www.kde.org on the
20th of August.

Simlaur behaviour has been noted by a friend of mine who is running a
copy of the same snapshot on a RedHat 6.0 system - the differences were
as follows:

	- He did all his browsing in one window.  X got huge, but his kfm
	  process stayed relatively small (if you can call 10MB small,
	  which he doesn't think is justified).

	- I did my browsing using many short-live windows.  X got huge,
	  and so did kfm (33+MB right now, more yesterday).


Any chance this could be fixed before release (in 5 days)? 

I'd be happy to provide more information, and so would my friend
Hrafnkell <he@kvintus.dk>.

One possible reference I found in your bug database, which might be
worthwhile to investigate further was:  

	http://bugs.kde.org/db/12/1275.html


Oh yeah - thanks for KDE! :-)

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Bjarni R. Einarsson                           PGP: 02764305, B7A3AB89
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