On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 02:00:53PM -0000, jiho@postal.c-zone.net wrote:
> I have finally isolated the fact that a (sometimes) large memory leak -- which
> I've experienced for years -- ONLY occurs while running X clients.  It does NOT
> occur in character-mode situations.

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Try to quit the whole X server, and start it again.

X servers are known to have memory leaks, and one of the reasons there is a 
-terminate option is to garbage collect the wasted memory on each (xdm) logout.

	-is