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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: oom_adj
From:       "Maksim Orlovich" <mo85 () cornell ! edu>
Date:       2009-02-18 23:04:11
Message-ID: 1740.128.253.53.135.1234998251.squirrel () webmail ! cornell ! edu
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> Lubos Lunak wrote:
>> It is a question if we should and can protect Xorg, since
>> the kernel can't tell which X client is the one creating too many X
>> resources
>> and causing Xorg to use a lot of memory.
>
> I've seen X eat 7 GB of address space (no, I am not kidding), apparently
> related to plasma, but killing plasma didn't help; I had to kill X. I'd
> rather see Qt learn to reconnect apps when X dies,

That's basically impossible for a properly written X application w/o
wasting tons of memory.

> and not protect X, since X is sometimes the problem.
>
> (FTR, I believe this is a bug in nvidia's cra^H^H^Hdrivers, not plasma.)

xrestop should tell what's leaking.


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