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Posted: Dec. 01 2007,17:57 QUOTE
The leak could as well be in FF - or in both.

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Posted: Dec. 01 2007,18:32 QUOTE
For the original question, how to find the leak - Valgrind's memcheck is good for that.
But I just checked Fluxbox's changelog; when I searched for "leak", there were about ten after 0.1.10 (which I think is in DSL; edit, I looked from "packages", which is out of date..)

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Posted: Dec. 01 2007,19:24 QUOTE
It is v0.1.14 from fluxbox -version
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Posted: Dec. 01 2007,20:01 QUOTE
From the old posted thread, the only way to avoid this is by using the XFree86 extension and Fluxbox. Since XFree86 is an extension then I would be leaning towards moving Fluxbox to an extension as well, with a warning in it's info file that it depends on XFree86. This would only be considered for current on-going development version 4.x.

Perhaps someone want to test this with the Xorg extension.

Again, I have not see the leak with many other window managers including the current 4.x default of jwm.
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Posted: Dec. 02 2007,10:36 QUOTE
I've just been trying out XFree86, fluxbox and firefox on my laptop - note that this is using the i810 driver rather than Xvesa so I'm not sure how relevant this is...

Over about 5 hours the memory used by XFree86 varied up and down but the overall trend is definately up - from about 156,000k to 168,000k (not sure why the numbers are so big - maybe I'm making a mistake somewhere).
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