excessive memory use in VNC server on Solaris

[Steve Waltner]

I've seen a similar issue on our Solaris 9 systems, but I rarely saw  
the memory size go above 500 MB. We had been running VNC 3.3.3r2 from  
AT&T until very recently when I switched that out with RealVNC (Free)  
4.1.2. This upgrade was being done to fix two problems, one of which  
was the memory usage. We haven't been able to track down the  
triggering event (specific X application or length of time the  
session is running). I've been meaning to run a debugger on a running  
app that is using memory like this to send info about how much RAM is  
allocated for what....

PS: Is there any way to configure the vnc-list mailing list server to  
add [vnc-list] to the subject of e-mails? That would make sorting e- 
mails a lot easier.

Steve

On Oct 6, 2006, at 11:38 AM, Steve Platt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using the 4.1.2 Free Edition on Solaris 10.
>
> Recently (ie this morning!) we noticed that one Xvnc process's  
> virtual memory
> size had grown to about 4GB (the worst case), with most of this  
> resident in
> memory, forcing other processes to be swapped out.
>
> As I'm used to seeing Xvnc sizes like 20/30MB this was a bit of a  
> surprise, to
> say the least.
>
> Has anyone else exerienced this and if so is there an explanation  
> please?
>
> Apparently we have recently installed a new "screenlock" program  
> into all
> sessions and I wonder if this may be the cause.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Steve Platt