significant memory leak in xserver 1.2

I've attached the patch that should fix this problem; I'm applying this on my edgy version of Xorg 7.2 available at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=373087

I'll let you know if it works as reported by other users (first of all ones from gentoo)...

Treviño's patched edgy version appears to be working. Running Xorg 7.2 for 12 hours now and memory usage is 75 Mb on a system with 2 GB RAM (unpatched version was using 400-500 MB after 12 hours).

fixed with this upload:

 xorg-server (2:1.2.0-3ubuntu4) feisty; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/patches/107_fedora_dont_backfill_bg_none.patch:
     - Re-enable to see if it helps with performance regressions.
   * debian/patches/127_check_for_clientgone.patch:
     - A fix from upstream. (LP: #60288)
   * debian/patches/128_fix_client_privates_leak.patch
     - Plug a memory leak. (LP: #92882)
   * debian/rules
     - Fix a typo in --with-default-font-path.

are there any feisty repos available to perform upgrade?

The patch should be provided by official repos, as mentioned on Timo's changelog...

well, where is the fix in the official repos?
did someone take it out again?
I'm using xorg-server-core 2:1.2.03ubuntu8 and the first line at top shows this:

 PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
 8012 root 15 0 424m 91m 9656 S 1 9.2 16:30.74 Xorg

and that's even with memory-hungry-firefox closed.
I think the leak is still out there.
By the way, uptime reports 11:22h up.

The leak is definitely still out here - and I can confirm it in both the 32 and 64 bit versions.

Is there a package or instructions for a patch? This is a nasty little bug, requiring many x-server restarts for those of us with ~1 gig of memory.

Thanks

jtp0142: make sure it's the same leak, and not due to firefox+flashplugin eating memory (see bug 98783)

It's not - neither machine has the flashplugin installed, and we are able to recreate the problem without any web browser running. We would really love to patch this and get this fixed, it is extremely annoying. I dont remember it happening in the Feisty herds either, if that helps.

Hello,

The solution proposed in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/186354 worked for me: disable xinerama.

On ubuntu 9.04 (using an Intel GMA chipset), I added this at the bottom of my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and then had no more problem after restarting the X server:

Section "Serverflags"
    Option "Xinerama" "false"
Endsection