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

[Michael Witten]

On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 15:23:57 -0500, Daniel Wagner wrote:

>> On 2014-01-13 13:45, Michael Witten wrote:
>>
>> Software:
>>
>>   xmonad 0.11
>>   xmobar 0.10
>>   Xorg   1.14.1
>>
>>
>> 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.
>
> Could you include your config file? Perhaps there's something an
> experienced Haskeller can spot quickly. Then again perhaps not. In
> any case I have been using xmonad for several years and have not
> noticed the problem you describe.
> ~d

~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs
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  import XMonad
  import XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog
  
  main = xmonad =<< xmobar defaultConfig { modMask = mod4Mask, terminal = "urxvtc" }

~/.xmobarrc
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  Config { 
           font = "xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:size=9"
         , bgColor = "black"
         , fgColor = "grey"
         , position = Top
         , lowerOnStart = True
         , commands = [ Run Cpu ["-L","3","-H","50","--normal","green","--high","red"] 10
                      , Run Memory ["-t","Mem: <usedratio>%"] 10
                      , Run Swap [] 10
                      , Run Network "eth2" [] 10
                      , Run Date "%a %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" "date" 10
                      , Run StdinReader
                      ]
         , sepChar = "%"
         , alignSep = "}{"
         , template = "%cpu% | %memory% * %swap% | %eth2% } %StdinReader% { <fc=#ee9a00>%date%</fc>"
         }