Steam causes Xorg to leak memory
I've just noticed that after a long session of gameplay the memory usage of Xorg doesn't raise above the normal. I'm not exactly sure if it's an odd occurrence though. 21 January 2019 beta build.
So I'm bumping this again since after a short session the X server managed to reach over 1GB of RAM usage, shortly before my computer froze
re-Bumping this, issue persists
Continues to be an issue.
Bumping.
I have no idea why such a serious problem is being mostly ignored here.
Yeah I'll say "still an issue" here as well. Ive taken to keeping steam closed most of the time which really sucks for random game invites and such
Same here. Still a issue. Leaving steam client open cause my xorg eating more and more memory.
Can confirm on Gentoo with XMonad - Steam just caused Xorg to accumulate almost a gigabyte of RAM after having Steam open for ~1 day. Closing Steam made Xorgs ram usage drop to a measly 132MB.
Having multiple Steam sub-windows open (like friends list, chat etc) makes it even worse.
Steam still bloats xorg with gigabytes of unused pixmaps or windows over two and a half years later, often within the span of hours.
In this case steam has been running for 8 hours:
And here is the exact same process list after restarting steam and waiting for it to load
Not ice the drastically lower Xorg memory use (a delta memory of 791 MiB, that's ~100MiB/ hour, a rather excessive leak, if you ask me)
Happy late 3rd birthday to this issue 🎉
the problem still exist, manjaro gnome 40
aaaaaaand now it's leaking so many sockets i can't actually start anything anymore (not even e.g. glxgears or xlsclients from outside of steam) after 5ish minutes of steam starting, due to Maximum number of clients reached...
Nothing extracted yet.
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Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:
When Steam is running for a prolonged amount of time it causes Xorg to leak memory.
This issue was primarily the root cause of #5279.
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