Aug 20, 2025 · Diagnosing and Resolving High Xorg Memory Consumption in Linux # Lately, many Linux users, particularly those employing lightweight window managers or directly …

Apr 28, 2022 · Yes I think so. Xorg for about a year now holds on to pixmaps and does not release them. Over time xorg RAM usage creeps up. All of my arch machines with intel …

Apr 2, 2024 · I noticed a while back that my CPU usage was suddenly constantly going somewhere between 30–40 % with Xorg using most of it (e.g. now the total usage is 34 %, top …

Oct 3, 2020 · On an fresh Ubuntu 20.04 Server machine with 2 Nvidia GPU cards and i7-5930K, running nvidia-smi shows that 170 MB of GPU memory is being used by /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg. …

Jul 25, 2025 · Tuning these driver options through /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d snippets allows users to enable hardware acceleration pathways that reduce redundant frame drawing, minimize …

Nov 18, 2020 · Lately, there is a lot of memory leak on my (Arch) Linux laptop. A command named Xorg -nolisten tcp :0 vt1 --keeptty -auth /tmp/serverauth.mWgFYYiRdF is continually …

Apr 10, 2021 · When I ran nvidia-smi, I noticed ~1GiB VRAM usage. Out of which Xorg uses ~400MiB. Brave uses around ~400MiB too so I am not sure if this is normal or a memory leak. …

Does Xorg instantly take that amount of RAM or does it just pile on over time? I seem to recall a bug where USB hubs would cause Xorg to accumulate garbage memory usage from usb …

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There is a memory leak in your xorg, it's hard to tell exactly what the issue is without you posting your xorg logs from /var/log/ and your user xorg errors in your home folder (use show hidden …