From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8049 invoked by alias); 29 Mar 2010 16:55:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 8033 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Mar 2010 16:55:24 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtpout.karoo.kcom.com (HELO smtpout.karoo.kcom.com) (212.50.160.34) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:55:20 +0000 Received: from 213-152-38-55.dsl.eclipse.net.uk (HELO [192.168.0.5]) ([213.152.38.55]) by smtpout.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 29 Mar 2010 17:55:18 +0100 Message-ID: <4BB0DB76.20708@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:20:00 -0000 From: Jon TURNEY Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com CC: akhailtash@yahoo.com Subject: Re: USER/GDI Objects leak with (XWin.exe) Cygwin/X X Server Verion 1.7.6, Build Date 2010-03-18 References: <745077.37241.qm@web88004.mail.re2.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <745077.37241.qm@web88004.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2010-03/txt/msg00087.txt.bz2 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 -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/