Re: Xserver growing ??

[Allan Black <allan genia scotnet co uk>]

> Well, I figured that out myself. Usually if you call malloc() the memory usage
> of your program grows, but here, the Xserver grows... Thats what I don't
> understand ...

It's not 'memory leaks' as such, what you are probably doing is, allocating
X resources, e.g. GCs, pixmaps (especially large pixmaps!) or windows.

These resources are managed by the server - pixmaps, for example, are held
in the server, and that includes a copy of the image.

So, I guess you're allocating server resources which you are not freeing.
Once your connection to the X server is closed down, the server releases
the resources associated with the connection.

One common problem is: you have a section of code which needs a pixmap, so
you create the pixmap at the beginning of it's invocation. This way you
allocate a pixmap every time this bit of code is called. Either you need to
free the pixmap at the end of it, or create the pixmap *once* and re-use it.

Allan