Cool, Mike, well done! Kudos to all involved, seems like a very cool app... any ETA for it to appear among 'stable' Fedora packages? Best, Andre On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 21:17:00 -0500 (EST) "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The GUI xrestop utility has been added to Fedora Core > development. > > xrestop presents a 'top' like view of X resources. This utility > can be used to determine what applications might be leaking X > resources, or may be using a lot of X resources, all of which > are stored in the X server, and thus affect the memory footprint > of the X server - even though the resources belong to the > applications themselves. > > Often, people look at the output of "top" or "ps" and mistakenly > believe that the X server is using a horrendous amount of memory. > The output of both of those programs is very inaccurate for the X > server process, as the X server mmap's video memory, and I/O > regions of the video hardware, ROM BIOSes, etc. all of which add > into the memory shown by top/ps for the process, but which are > not physical system RAM. This results in the mistaken belief > that the X server uses a lot of memory, when in reality, the X > server itself uses very little memory at all. > > Aside from the above problem, the other more frequent cause of > the X server appearing to use a lot of memory, is applications > allocating X resources. Some applications such as Mozilla, can > use a LOT of pixmaps when viewing certain web pages, etc. which > all end up stored in the X server until mozilla releases them or > exits. If you visit a large webpage with hundreds of images, > you'll quickly see your X server increase in size. Quit the web > browser and you'll see the X server shrink again. > > Applications which leak X resources, end up causing the X server > to bloat over time, until the application is killed - at which > time the resources are freed. > > xrestop is a useful utility for tracking down X resource leakage > problems and for helping both developers and end users alike to > determine what exactly is causing their X server memory usage to > increase. > > The overwhelming majority of all "my X server is leaking memory" > bugs that get reported, almost always end up /not/ being X server > bugs, but instead are applications leaking X resources, some of > which are hard to find because they are part of the desktop > environment itself, such as gnome-panel or similar. > > Please use xrestop when experiencing problems of this nature, to > help pinpoint the true cause of the problems at hand, so that > bugs can be filed to the appropriate buggy components in > bugzilla. > > Now that there is a useful tool for helping track these types of > issues down, please do not gang up on the X server with X > resource utilization bugs. It is memory leak free, or we'd have > to change the name of it to XMalloc86. ;o) > > /me runs to dodge the tomatoes > > Seriously though, please play with xrestop, and report any > application resource leakage bugs you find in bugzilla. > > Thanks for testing! > > > -- > Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris > OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat > > > _______________________________________________ > xfree86-list mailing list > xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list > IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com -- Andre Oliveira da Costa _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
