[xmonad] Leak... somewhere... I periodically restart xmonad to recover gobs of swap space

[Michael Witten]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Michael Witten <mfwitten at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> After a while (say, a month) of normal activity, my swap space becomes almost entirely
>> eaten up; the problem can be solved by restarting xmonad (`mod-q').
>>
>> The problem could well be `xmobar' or `X' itself.
>
>
> X11 seems unlikely. Memory leaks *are* possible (but unlikely) depending on what you
> have in your xmonad.hs.
>
> (For what it's worth, xmonad isn't even visible on my machine if I sort top by virtual process
> size. But it's only been running for a couple days thanks to system updates. I don't use xmobar
> since I run xmonad under xfce.)

Thanks for the input.

I'll keep an eye on things; the next time my swap gets suffocated,
I'll kill xmobar by itself to see
what happens.