Re: xorg 6.9.0 mem leak

From: Thomas Gellekum <Thomas.Gellekum_at_gmx.de>
Date: 02 Feb 2006 07:44:52 +0100
Randy Bush <randy_at_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
Received on Thu Feb 02 2006 - 05:44:57 UTC

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