[crossfire] Valgrind results

[Alex Schultz]

Andreas Kirschbaum wrote:

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     I don't think the X server itself has a memory leak. The problem is that
     
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     the crossfire client requests many X resources which makes the X server
     
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     allocate memory. And because the client leaks the old handles when
     
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     allocating a new resources, the X server itself cannot free the old
     
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     resources until the client exits.
     
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     After the crossfire client exits, these resources are freed by the X
     
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     server. But as far as I know, the (virtual) memory usage of an Unix
     
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     processes normally does not shrink. Therefore the X server's memory
     
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     usage does not shrink after the crossfire client exits.
     
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     Ah. That makes sense. Is there any sort of way to get X to get the 
memory from freed X resources back? (other than restarting X)