[Okular-devel] [Bug 177213] High X server memory consumption

[Oscar Fuentes]

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177213





--- Comment #5 from Oscar Fuentes <ofv wanadoo es>  2008-12-09 18:17:44 ---
Asking on the X.org mailing list [1] yield this information:

The X server does nothing fancy when resources such as pixmaps are deallocated.
Is up to the C library function free() to return memory to the OS. Heap
fragmentation can happen, thus preventing free() from returning memory to the
OS.

So using the X server for caching pages can indeed cause an unbounded growth of
the amount of memory asigned to the X server process.

[1]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg/34751


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