[lug] x server memory usage and indirect xscreensaver memory leak

[Neal McBurnett]

Interesting - thanks ralf - that does indeed look like too much work for
the initial screening of problems, but it seems like it could work....

E.g. it was used for snooping on gnucash as related here:
   http://www.gnucash.org/gnucash-devel/April-2000/msg00570.php3

Cheers,

Neal McBurnett <neal at bcn.boulder.co.us>
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On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 06:12:40PM +0100, rm at fabula.de wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 01:40:29PM -0800, Jeffrey Siegal wrote:
> > That's correct.  XCreatePixmap(), for example, will allocate space for
> > the image in the server's memory space.  It might be nice if there was
> > some way to "charge" this memory back to the client, but there isn't.
> 
> Meanwhile i found some of my old notes: one could monitor client requests
> for resource allocation with a tool like 'xmon' (should be found on any
> good Unix/X mirror, i found one at 
> ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/X11/contrib/devel_tools/xmon.1.5.6.tar.gz). 
> The program works as an X-proxy server. One can start client programs
> with the '-display' option and redirect their requests to the xmon daemon.
> Might be a lot of tedious work so ....
> 
> 
>  ralf mattes
> 
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