Re: [Dri-devel] XServer memory leak?

[Nicholas L. <ni...@by...>]

On Sunday 27 October 2002 03:58 pm, you wrote:
> Felix Kühling wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I had my Xserver running for about 24 hours straight and noticed that it
> > was using about 220M virtual memory. Even after closing all clients and
> > logging out the memory usage didn't drop significantly. After I killed
> > and restarted gdm it uses "only" about 90M. Does this indicate a memory
> > leak in the Xserver or are there other possible explanations for such
> > behaviour?
> 
> Memory can only ever increase for processes which do memory allocation 
> using brk() - there is no way to return such memory to the OS.
> 
> -d

"no way to return such memory to the OS"

IMO that constitutes a leak.  It is in effect a lost resource where the
system is concerned.

Why is this so?


Nick