Re: Xorg leaking memory on -current...



On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 05:21:00PM +0100 I heard the voice of
Alexander Leidinger, and lo! it spake thus:
Quoting Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (from Tue, 31 Oct 2006
08:53:08 +0000):

It certainly correlates with firefox, but restarting firefox does
not relieve the memory pressure.

FWIW: On Solaris I also see firefox eating memory. After several
days with several open tabs with several pictures in each page (for
example BigBrother and similar stuff) it eats up a lot of swap.
After closing firefox, it frees some memory (the one firefox itself
has eaten up), but not the memory the X server has eaten up.

I see that too, though it doesn't seem to cause any slowdowns here.
My X server has a 'size' of 568 meg, but only 120 meg resident. It's
been running since I booted in June, and Firefox has bloated itself
into oblivion and been restarted a number of times since then.


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