Re: [rox-devel] Memory leak

[Thomas L. <ta...@ec...>]

On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 01:22:59AM -0400, Ryan Harris wrote:
[ changing backdrop leaks memory ]
> I'm not sure as to the reason, but I am definitely seeing a similar, and
> surely related, problem. After time running Rox with the pinboard
> background set, X memory usage goes through the roof, redrawing
> (shading, etc) becomes very slow. 
> 
> "but if you drag a window over it"
> 
> I'm assuming you meant dragging windows over the pinboard to cause a
> redraw?  This doesn't seem to cause it for me; at least not fast enough
> for me to notice.  For me it seems to happen directly any time I change
> the background image. And, the symtoms seem to get worse over time.  I'm
> not sure if this is due to killing and restarting Rox, as I've been
> doing that a lot lately.

It used to happen all the time with the new pinboard code, but after I
removed the ParentRelative stuff, it got more managable.

> I'm also running Debian unstable. 

The xfree86 packager suggested I try with

	Section "Device"
		...
		Option          "NoAccel"

in XF86Config-4 and that solves the problem for me. Well, except for
making X unusably slow, but...

Looks like it's fixed in 4.2.


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