[Bug 285902] the power management service causes xorg to leak memory

Lamarque V. Souza lamarque at kde.org
Wed Nov 9 22:29:15 GMT 2011


https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285902





--- Comment #7 from Lamarque V. Souza <lamarque kde org>  2011-11-09 22:29:15 ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> I'm not really familiar with KDE architecture enough, but if some KDE libraries
> get loaded into an address space of xorg, it might cause a leak.

That is the point, it is very unlikely Powerdevil can access xorg's address
space. That would be a great security risk since Xorg run as root.

I think the temperature being higher with Powerdevil running is just an
impression. CPU temperature oscilates with any minimum difference in the cpu
load.

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