Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:38:47 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg leaking memory on -current... Message-ID: <4547D077.4070609@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <20061031172100.to3w8eww00kw84kk@webmail.leidinger.net> References: <4146.1162284788@critter.freebsd.dk> <20061031172100.to3w8eww00kw84kk@webmail.leidinger.net>
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Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> (from Tue, 31 Oct 2006 > 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 > 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. When I closed firefox > several times, X has eaten too much and everything (on the desktop) > comes to a crawl (more or less). Restarting the X server (xorg BTW) > everything is back to normal. > > AFAIK it's a know firefox bug which isn't even fixed in firefox 2.0 > (despite a lot of requests from users). > > Bye, > Alexander. > I think that the Firefox behaviour is actually considered a feature. Both Mozilla and Firefox appear to cache everything they can, without bounds. If you tweak a hidden pref to turn off caching, the 'leak' goes away. Scott
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