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

Daniel Wagner daniel at wagner-home.com
Thu Jan 16 16:14:33 UTC 2014


On 2014-01-15 17:03, Michael Witten wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 15:23:57 -0500, Daniel Wagner wrote:
>>> On 2014-01-13 13:45, Michael Witten 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').
> 
> ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs
> -------------------
> 
>   import XMonad
>   import XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog
> 
>   main = xmonad =<< xmobar defaultConfig { modMask = mod4Mask, terminal 
> = "urxvtc" }


...well, that seems pretty benign. Hard to hide a configuration bug in 
something that short, so I can see why you think it might be xmonad's 
fault instead of yours! (And I see from your .xmobarrc that you are also 
using StdinReader properly, so that's not the problem.)

Very strange.
~d


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