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List: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: oom_adj
From: Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad () users ! sourceforge ! net>
Date: 2009-02-18 23:24:11
Message-ID: gni5av$1mc$1 () ger ! gmane ! org
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Maksim Orlovich wrote:
>> 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.
To reconnect, or to make X bloat like that?
>> 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.
Please re-read the post; xrestop reported plasma as having the lion's
share of the memory. However I suspect that this is because plasma
tickles a bug in The Blob; stuff is allocated by plasma during normal
operation, but something done by The Blob prevents it from ever being
freed as it should. Especially since killing plasma didn't help. (IOW I
would guess that The Blob is wrongly holding handles.)
--
Matthew
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