fglrx

Xorg memory leak on 14.04

Bug #1354350 reported by Yosha872
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Bug Description

Same kind of issue as : "Xorg memory leak on trusty" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/1272338

After browsing a lot (Firefox 31, Opera 12), after more than 10 hours Xorg uses over 1 GB (some times up to 2 GB). I have 8 GB RAM.
It seems to me that the system monitor increase the memory leak.

I'm on Linux Mint 17 (64 bits Cinnamon).
APU AMD Athlon 5350 (+ driver AMD Catalyst 14.4).

top - 12:44:32 up 19:08, 2 users, load average: 1,04, 1,21, 1,30
Tasks: 178 total, 1 running, 177 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 22,2 us, 3,7 sy, 0,0 ni, 73,3 id, 0,6 wa, 0,2 hi, 0,0 si, 0,0 st
KiB Mem: 7528392 total, 7139440 used, 388952 free, 368300 buffers
KiB Swap: 9963572 total, 252560 used, 9711012 free. 1592828 cached Mem

  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
 4646 batman 20 0 2720,8m 212,7m 6,5m S 35,4 2,9 354:46.81 java
 1447 root 20 0 3757,3m 3,305g 140,1m S 24,2 46,0 221:35.96 Xorg
 4534 batman 20 0 520,9m 23,2m 9,7m S 9,9 0,3 96:48.76 gnome-system-mo
 3460 batman 20 0 605,9m 16,2m 7,4m S 6,3 0,2 2:50.10 gnome-terminal
 2897 batman 20 0 1827,5m 186,4m 43,1m S 5,6 2,5 66:31.93 cinnamon

My current system is:
X.Org X Server 1.15.1
Release Date: 2014-04-13
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 3.2.0-37-generic x86_64 Ubuntu

lsb_release -rd
Description: Linux Mint 17 Qiana
Release: 17

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Yosha872 (yosha) wrote :

By the 'system monitor' I mean the software (v3.6.0) that shows graphs about CPU and memory.

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Chris Wilson (ickle) wrote :

Use xrestop to see how much memory X is using on behalf of its clients.

affects: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu) → fglrx-installer (Ubuntu)
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Yosha872 (yosha) wrote :
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Hello. After 8 hours running, Xorg is 1,9 GB.

xrestop - Display: localhost
          Monitoring 41 clients. XErrors: 0
          Pixmaps: 45400K total, Other: 109K total, All: 45510K total

res-base Wins GCs Fnts Pxms Misc Pxm mem Other Total PID Identifier
1400000 37 3 1 11 1696 23906K 41K 23947K 3005 cinnamon
2a00000 48 84 1 158 459 10757K 14K 10772K 3596 Firefox
0000000 2 0 2 0 88 4850K 4K 4855K ? <unknown>
2000000 10 3 1 4 123 1792K 4K 1796K 3355 Terminal
2200000 0 0 0 1 0 1280K 0B 1280K ? <unknown>
5600000 5 2 0 7 52 792K 1K 793K 24293 Moniteur système
1a00000 18 3 1 13 200 593K 6K 599K 3027 OOFFF
1c00000 20 93 1 75 50 515K 4K 519K 3058 LibreOffice 4.2
2600000 8 63 1 5 29 393K 3K 396K 3476 mintUpdate.py
4c00000 11 57 1 2 16 384K 2K 386K 5626 opera
6000000 1 32 0 17 9 32K 1008B 32K ? <unknown>
4400000 3 3 0 2 11 32K 408B 32K 4657 kglobalaccel
4200000 3 3 0 2 11 32K 408B 32K 5692 kuiserver
3e00000 3 3 0 2 11 32K 408B 32K 4653 kded4
2800000 15 7 1 2 18 9K 1K 10K 5626 Opera
0e00000 4 1 0 0 305 0B 7K 7K 2720 cinnamon-settings-daemon
4a00000 7 58 1 2 12 12B 2K 2K 5692 kuiserver
4600000 7 58 1 2 12 12B 2K 2K 4657 kglobalaccel
4000000 7 58 1 2 12 12B 2K 2K 4653 kdeinit4: kded4 [kdeinit]
1800000 3 3 1 0 30 8B 1K 1K 3032 polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
0400000 0 1 1 0 0 0B 1K 1K ? <unknown>
2400000 4 2 0 0 22 4B 672B 676B 3472 cinnamon-screensaver
1e00000 5 1 0 0 18 0B 576B 576B 3028 Applet NetworkManager
5c00000 9 1 0 0 4 0B 336B 336B 9791
0800000 2 1 0 0 11 0B 336B 336B 2444 cinnamon-session
3000000 2 2 0 0 8 4B 288B 292B 12232 plugin-container
5a00000 1 8 0 1 3 0B 288B 288B ? <unknown>
2e00000 2 1 0 0 9 0B 288B 288B 4256 Service de système de fichiers RECENT
1200000 2 1 0 0 9 0B 288B 288B 2979 cinnamon-launcher
5e00000 6 1 0 0 0 0B 168B 168B 9821

top - 08:48:26 up 22:02, 3 users, load average: 2,64, 3,30, 3,16
Tasks: 184 total, 3 running, 181 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 15,6 us, 2,5 sy, 0,0 ni, 80,8 id, 1,0 wa, 0,2 hi, 0,0 si, 0,0 st
KiB Mem: 7528392 total, 7123136 used, 405256 free, 1425136 buffers
KiB Swap: 3906452 total, 17928 used, 3888524 free. 1838676 cached Mem

  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
 3596 icecube 20 0 1...

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Yosha872 (yosha) wrote :
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Second logs after 2 days uptime:

top - 15:37:07 up 2 days, 20:00, 3 users, load average: 0,76, 1,83, 1,90
Tasks: 196 total, 1 running, 195 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 18,4 us, 6,0 sy, 0,0 ni, 73,8 id, 1,8 wa, 0,1 hi, 0,0 si, 0,0 st
KiB Mem: 7528392 total, 6672812 used, 855580 free, 462568 buffers
KiB Swap: 3906452 total, 10520 used, 3895932 free. 2293540 cached Mem

  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
 1523 root 20 0 998780 626936 208424 S 10,9 8,3 161:31.83 Xorg
28620 icecube 20 0 1799716 590452 57368 S 22,2 7,8 521:58.54 firefox
 6661 icecube 20 0 4533076 426388 34628 S 5,7 19:20.66 java
 2521 icecube 20 0 1772484 317448 57476 S 6,0 4,2 178:09.50 cinnamon
 2389 icecube 20 0 4542420 293884 20076 S 1,3 3,9 6:24.47 java
 3294 icecube 20 0 2782540 241656 13636 S 13,6 3,2 1375:24 java
 4154 icecube 20 0 584728 178628 22760 S 2,4 9:29.12 opera
28677 icecube 20 0 1048756 147272 32532 S 5,3 2,0 123:33.98 plugin-containe
 4186 icecube 20 0 2705756 131676 13196 S 12,6 1,7 578:21.34 xxxxxx.exe
 2576 icecube 20 0 1598228 127128 52416 S 1,7 2:49.94 soffice.bin
 2531 icecube 20 0 1596936 121168 27492 S 1,6 10:48.25 nemo
29524 icecube 20 0 601876 50592 35748 S 0,7 0:14.18 krusader
 3027 icecube 20 0 671552 44728 20584 S 0,6 0:15.77 mintUpdate
 3023 icecube 20 0 439908 37232 15796 S 0,5 8:47.50 cinnamon-screen
28014 icecube 20 0 2671356 32180 10580 S 0,7 0,4 5:30.99 notepad++.exe
 2233 icecube 20 0 970380 23764 15748 S 0,3 1:26.19 cinnamon-settin
 4170 icecube 20 0 408676 22604 16220 S 0,3 0:01.62 kglobalaccel
 4318 icecube 20 0 385960 22436 16356 S 0,3 0:01.73 kuiserver
 4159 icecube 20 0 381296 22328 15580 S 0,3 0:03.07 kded4
 2832 icecube 20 0 620588 22240 12980 S 6,0 0,3 6:55.99 gnome-terminal
 2538 icecube 20 0 467764 20724 13032 S 0,3 0:01.54 polkit-gnome-au
 2495 icecube 20 0 251992 18644 9480 S...

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Pekka Kola (pekka-kola-m) wrote :

I guess this is the same bug I've reported (Bug #1314787)

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Federico Tello Gentile (federicotg) wrote :

I had the problem with Ubuntu´s catalyst version, but it seems to be fixed with Catalyst 14.9.

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Will Lucas (mevatron) wrote :

I also was having this problem. As mentioned by @federicotg, I upgraded to the AMD Catalyst 14.9 driver, and I have been running Ubuntu for about 6 days 24/7 with no leaks (at least not noticeable anyway). Xorg stays around 250MB of usage on average for me now.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in fglrx-installer (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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yehonal (hw-2) wrote :

i've the same problem on 14.04.1. Xorg eats lot of RAM after few hours...is there any fix?

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Brian Trotter (brian-trotter) wrote :

Reverting from the fglrx (proprietary) driver to the xserver-xorg-video-ati (open source, tested) driver solved the problem for me.

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David (bigdaveberg) wrote :

Can confirm the bug still exists, causing massive memory leaks for me as well.

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bmaupin (bmaupin) wrote :

Same problem with Xubuntu 14.04.3. I switched back to the xserver-xorg-video-ati driver to see if it fixes the problem.

This was while I was still using fglrx:

$ ps aux | grep /usr/bin/X
root 1470 0.7 24.3 4415808 1973744 tty7 Ss+ Sep04 65:07 /usr/bin/X -core :0 -seat seat0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty
$ uname -a
Linux bmaupi-xubuntu 3.16.0-48-generic #64~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Aug 20 23:03:57 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ uptime
 09:41:21 up 5 days, 16:04, 8 users, load average: 0.45, 0.67, 0.71
$ dpkg -s fglrx
Package: fglrx
Status: install ok installed
Priority: extra
Section: restricted/misc
Installed-Size: 163590
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <email address hidden>
Architecture: amd64
Source: fglrx-installer
Version: 2:15.200-0ubuntu0.5
$ fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon(TM) HD8490
OpenGL version string: 4.4.13374 Compatibility Profile Context 13.35.1005

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bmaupin (bmaupin) wrote :

After switching back to xserver-xorg-video-ati, X is using much less memory:

$ ps aux | grep /usr/bin/X
root 1708 0.6 1.9 509828 154948 tty7 Ssl+ Sep11 60:43 /usr/bin/X -core :0 -seat seat0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch
$ uptime
 15:33:09 up 6 days, 22:33, 8 users, load average: 2.47, 1.42, 0.86

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awe_cz (martin-nedbal) wrote :

I have exactly the same problem:

# uname -a
Linux awe 3.19.0-30-generic #33~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Sep 22 09:27:00 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

# uptime
 18:14:25 up 3 days, 5:10, 5 users, load average: 0.44, 1.66, 3.07

# cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=14.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=trusty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS"

# ps aux|grep /X
root 8509 9.8 27.3 4607200 4248288 tty7 Ss+ Oct01 140:38 /usr/bin/X -core :0 -seat seat0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch

# fglrxinfo
display: :0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon HD 7560D
OpenGL version string: 4.4.13374 Compatibility Profile Context 15.20.1013

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