USER/GDI Objects leak with (XWin.exe) Cygwin/X X Server Verion 1.7.6, Build Date 2010-03-18

[Jon TURNEY]

On 29/03/2010 18:20, Amal Khailtash wrote:
> I do have native TCL installed as well, but I am not really running anything locally.  The only client I run is a Linux Konsole window launched by an SSH command.  Once I have a remote terminal, I launch my simulation tool (ModelSim).  I watch the resources using windows Task Manager.
>
> Do you think that ModelSim or Konsole are eating up resources?  Although, even when I quit those programs, until I close XWin.exe, the resources are not freed!

Well, how about approaching the problem methodically?

If you boot up and just start the X server, do you see these leaks?
Does starting you X client (Konsole via ssh) cause these leaks?
Does starting your TCL application cause these leaks?

> ----- Original Message ----
> Sent: Mon, March 29, 2010 12:55:18 PM
> Subject: Re: USER/GDI Objects leak with (XWin.exe) Cygwin/X X Server Verion 1.7.6, Build Date 2010-03-18
>
> On 22/03/2010 18:38, Amal Khailtash wrote:
>> My Windows XP USER and GDI object counts, for process XWin.exe, keep going
>> up even if I leave my PC running and doing nothing.  The increase
>> eventually makes my windows title-bars and and menu bars disappear and I
>> need to reboot to be able to work again.
>
> How are you measuring these object counts?
>
> It's unclear from what you write if you have any X clients connected to your X server while the leak is occurring.
>
> It's interesting that, from your cygcheck output, you seem to have a native TCL installed, as that has been mentioned previously associated with some source of resource leak problem (see [1]), although I've never been able to reproduce it.
>
> [1] http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-xfree/2009-02/msg00184.html

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