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

[Michael Witten]

On Sat, 2014-Jan-18, Wirt Wolff wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 10:18 PM, Ben Boeckel <mathstuf at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 15 Jan, 2014 at 22:03:57 GMT, Michael Witten wrote:
>>> On 2014-01-13 13:45, Michael Witten wrote:
>>>   xmobar 0.10
>>
>> Is there a way to update this? 0.19 is out now.
>>
>>>                       , Run Swap [] 10
>>>                       , Run Network "eth2" [] 10
>>
>> I use the others and have no problems, so it may be these two. I'd
>> really try to get a newer xmobar first though.
>
> Sorry I came late to the thread. If I read correctly you're using xmobar
> 0.10 - there's a rather goofy memory leak due to the allocation of colors in
> xmobar 0.16 and earlier.
>
> So upgrading to a 0.17 or newer xmobar may solve the problem.
>
> xmobar release notes:
>
> http://projects.haskell.org/xmobar/releases.html

Thanks for the heads up! That looks like a promising explanation indeed.

I'll upgrade presently, and then let the list know how it goes in a month or so.

I thank everybody for taking the time to provide input.