On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 11:25, Havoc Pennington wrote: > On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 09:57:38AM +0700, PHD wrote: > > > > I just made a copy from my $HOME to another local drive (hdd1) in order > > to save my datas. I use the command find . -print | cpio -pdumv, classic > > command anyway. > > > > The copy (less than 1.7 MB) works with no problem but I noticed than > > even several minutes after the end of the cpio, my screen was slow. > > Checking via system monitor, the gnome terminal was using 1.1 GB of > > memory (include swap) and my RAM memory about 90% used (I have 512 MB). > > Is it normal, or a bug with RH8, or something wrong with my Intel P4 or > > gnome 2 ? Anybody had noticed that before ? Do I have to sync something > > ? > > > > The version of Xft in 8.0 leaks a lot of memory on X servers without > RENDER. You can see if you have the render extension using "xdpyinfo" > > If you don't have it that would typically mean that your video card is > poorly supported by XFree86, or that you're using VNC or something. > > Havoc Yep, you are 100% right. I have a i845G not entirely supported by Xfree 4.2 for the moment, with no render extension until Xfree 4.3.0. Well, that's pretty good news because I will acquire soon a new video card, fixing the rendering problem, and this memory leak also. Thnaks a lot for your quick answer, Philippe -- Philippe <phd@fcomfrench.com> -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
