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Date:      02 Feb 2006 07:44:52 +0100
From:      Thomas Gellekum <Thomas.Gellekum@gmx.de>
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:  <qyoe1q8djv.fsf@hanbruch.tg.intern>
In-Reply-To: <17377.14732.391882.775974@roam.psg.com>
References:  <17373.50882.270841.554876@roam.psg.com> <43DE2130.70203@yahoo.com.br> <17374.8868.815312.597508@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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Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> writes:

> > 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.

Might be another meaningless coincidence, but I've had problems
similar to this with the GTK2 Smokey-Blue theme on older firefoxes.
Since then I've switched to Clearlooks and firefox-1.5, with no
apparent ill effects.

tg



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