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

[Michael Witten]

On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 3:34 AM, Michael Witten <mfwitten at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, 2014-Jan-18, Wirt Wolff wrote:
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>> ...
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>> 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.
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>> So upgrading to a 0.17 or newer xmobar may solve the problem.
>>
>> xmobar release notes:
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>> http://projects.haskell.org/xmobar/releases.html
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> Thanks for the heads up! That looks like a promising explanation indeed.
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> I'll upgrade presently, and then let the list know how it goes in a month or so.
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> I thank everybody for taking the time to provide input.

My "tests" got bungled, but basically this seems to have been the problem.
Thanks, again.