Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:21:00 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg leaking memory on -current... Message-ID: <20061031172100.to3w8eww00kw84kk@webmail.leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <4146.1162284788@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <4146.1162284788@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Quoting Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> (from Tue, 31 Oct 2006 =20 08:53:08 +0000): >> Do you have any long-running clients? X clients can store objects in >> the server and some web browsers have been known to simulate Xserver >> leaks. > > 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 =20 with several open tabs with several pictures in each page (for example =20 BigBrother and similar stuff) it eats up a lot of swap. After closing =20 firefox, it frees some memory (the one firefox itself has eaten up), =20 but not the memory the X server has eaten up. When I closed firefox =20 several times, X has eaten too much and everything (on the desktop) =20 comes to a crawl (more or less). Restarting the X server (xorg BTW) =20 everything is back to normal. AFAIK it's a know firefox bug which isn't even fixed in firefox 2.0 =20 (despite a lot of requests from users). Bye, Alexander. --=20 Put your best foot forward. Or just call in and say you're sick. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID =3D B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID =3D 72077137
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