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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
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Subject: Re: X11R4 Xsun server appears to have a memory leak
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Date: 2 Feb 90 18:18:01 GMT
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    The primary client is a Symbolics UX400,

I've never looked at the Genera support, but it certainly wouldn't
surprise me to discover that it's client side allocates things and
never frees them (e.g. large pixmaps).  There's no a priori reason
to blame the server.

    Doesn't xdm send a SIGHUP to the server
    when the last client terminates?  Isn't that supposed to reinitialize
    the server?

It does "reinitialize" the server, but that doesn't cause the process
size to shrink; you can only do that in a typical Unix by killing off
the process and starting a new one (e.g. by typing control-backslash at
the login prompt).