Re: NetBSD 9.0 Huge Memory Usage

[Jaromír Doleček <jaromir.dolecek%gmail.com@localhost>]

Le dim. 19 avr. 2020 à 13:09, John m0t <j0hnb%inbox.lv@localhost> a écrit :
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> Hello;
> I have this problem from the first boot after installation.
> The memory usage is normal but it grows exponentially.
> The memory that gets consumed won't be returned to the system.
> after 14hrs of computer just setting idle the memory would grow about 5GB.
> at first I thought it is about firefox but removing it from the equation did nothing.
> the whole system is the culprit.
> As you will see below I started killing the high memory usage processes till I reach the the X itself. even killing it won't release the used memory.

Do you use AMD graphic card by chance? I think recently there was some
reported problem that xterm scrolling with AMD graphics caused a
memory leak.

Jaromir