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Bug 90035
Summary: | Memory leak when using mouse cursor themes | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide | Reporter: | Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro> |
Component: | XFree86 | Assignee: | Mike A. Harris <mharris> |
Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 1.0 | CC: | chris.ricker |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
Last Closed: | 2003-08-23 03:04:22 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Bug Blocks: | 100644 |
Description
Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-05-01 14:51:53 UTC
Disabling the animated mouse cursor cures the memory leak problem. It seems the problem is more complex than simply switching between animated and B&W mouse cursors: I've been using my system in such a way that only animated mouse cursors are used and the X server keeps leaking memory. I have a similar problem. I installed an animated mouse cursor and soon afterwards noticed that the X virtual memory size keeps increasing. I wasn't sure what caused it because I had upgraded to RH9 at about the same time. However, since switching back to non-animated cursors, the leak has at least become significantly slower, if not eliminated. I've still experienced a couple of OOM crashes while using a set of applications that haven't OOM on me before (although they are memory hungry), so I'm quite not sure the problem is completely eliminated by not using animated cursors. Perhaps XFree leaks a bitmap every time the cursors changes shape? I tried reproducing this with XFree86-4.3.0-21 but I was unable to. So, if everybody agrees, I'll close it. Ok thanks, marking as fixed in RAWHIDE. |