From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 1 02:32:16 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7710916A415 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 02:32:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EF7C43D72 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 02:32:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A8181A3C1C; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:32:09 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B63F05128A; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:32:03 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:32:03 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway To: "Matthew D. Fuller" Message-ID: <20061101023203.GA33650@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <4146.1162284788@critter.freebsd.dk> <20061031172100.to3w8eww00kw84kk@webmail.leidinger.net> <20061031210056.GX17019@over-yonder.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061031210056.GX17019@over-yonder.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: Alexander Leidinger , Poul-Henning Kamp , current@freebsd.org, Peter Jeremy Subject: Re: Xorg leaking memory on -current... X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 02:32:16 -0000 --OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:00:57PM -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > 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 (from Tue, 31 Oct 2006 = =20 > > 08:53:08 +0000): > > > > > >It certainly correlates with firefox, but restarting firefox does > > >not relieve the memory pressure. > >=20 > > 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. >=20 > 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. Use the xrestop port to monitor the amount of stuff your X applications cram into the server. Kris --OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFSAcjWry0BWjoQKURAsrAAJ9eUQLhmjSVTmhxKxquURC76wzbtgCg/sE4 EWcBG6aduP4nzfJsTA2WezU= =CfMN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG--