Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 14:54:26 -0800 From: Matt Reimer <mattjreimer@gmail.com> To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Jason Evans <jasone@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xorg 6.9.0 mem leak Message-ID: <f383264b0602011454k54831e28n81339681c2d6e53f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <17377.14732.391882.775974@roam.psg.com> References: <17373.50882.270841.554876@roam.psg.com> <DE3104E4-2EEA-47D2-AEB6-D21794B6CD05@canonware.com> <17374.32961.768874.463443@roam.psg.com> <c21e92e20601301340q5a8cef29ka38196f86225c39d@mail.gmail.com> <20060130214226.GA68308@xor.obsecurity.org> <17374.35319.265698.476631@roam.psg.com> <20060130215408.GA68492@xor.obsecurity.org> <17374.36245.570152.464206@roam.psg.com> <00D8C07F-FA95-47B6-9EF9-6C25652E93D2@freebsd.org> <17377.14732.391882.775974@roam.psg.com>
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On 2/1/06, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote: > > I've been running Xorg, firefox, and emacs, since last night (with > > jemalloc's redzone code enabled) on a two-day-old -current build, and > > after many invocations of firefox and emacs, with serious attempts to > > make firefox use lots of memory, Xorg's, memory usage has stabilized > > at ~75 MB mapped, and ~35 MB resident. > > what seems to be common with those of us seeing leakage is multiple > windows and many tabs. i standardly have three windows each with > six to ten tabs. Maybe what's eating up the memory is Firefox 1.5's new feature to cache extra data in RAM in order to make Back/Forward fast. Matt
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