Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:32:03 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> Cc: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, current@freebsd.org, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Subject: Re: Xorg leaking memory on -current... Message-ID: <20061101023203.GA33650@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20061031210056.GX17019@over-yonder.net> References: <4146.1162284788@critter.freebsd.dk> <20061031172100.to3w8eww00kw84kk@webmail.leidinger.net> <20061031210056.GX17019@over-yonder.net>
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--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 <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> (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--
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