Xorg extremely high memory usage in Jaunty (ATI HD 3400)

[hlxshady]

Hello all,

I'm not sure if this is a problem at all since I didn't pay too much attention to this in 8.10.

I'm running 9.04 on T400 of lenovo, with fglrx switched on and compiz as well.
Despite the slow response of maximising windows, I found that the memory usage gets higher as the uptime gets longer.

With top, I can see that as followed (with uptime of 2:49)
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
3393 root 20 0 609m 292m 28m S 18 9.7 12:21.66 Xorg
4301 stephen 20 0 434m 171m 34m R 9 5.7 11:17.60 firefox

the xorg ate almost 1 G of memory (including Virtual memory).

And I think this is a bit absurd that the X is really a big eater ?

Could anybody tell me if this is normal or ... ?

[s3lekta]

Hello all,

I'm not sure if this is a problem at all since I didn't pay too much attention to this in 8.10.

I'm running 9.04 on T400 of lenovo, with fglrx switched on and compiz as well.
Despite the slow response of maximising windows, I found that the memory usage gets higher as the uptime gets longer.

With top, I can see that as followed (with uptime of 2:49)
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
3393 root 20 0 609m 292m 28m S 18 9.7 12:21.66 Xorg
4301 stephen 20 0 434m 171m 34m R 9 5.7 11:17.60 firefox

the xorg ate almost 1 G of memory (including Virtual memory).

And I think this is a bit absurd that the X is really a big eater ?

Could anybody tell me if this is normal or ... ?

problem has already been reported here --> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer/+bug/351186

[xianthax]

that bug only looks to cover the min/maximize problems.

in regards to high Xorg memory usage, i have the same problem with an Nvidia card, Nvidia driver (newest from Nvidia), window manager makes no difference. this is new for me in 9.04 and have tried various nvidia drivers.

after a day or two of up time xorg memory usage creeps its way through the roof and graphics operations begin getting very slow, video begins tearing, etc.

seems to occur faster, that is after less up time, when doing graphics intensive work, 3d apps, VM's in virtual box, etc.

top reports 2094m virt and 440m res for xorg as i type this.