Re: Xorg leaking memory on -current...

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_at_phk.freebsd.dk> (from Tue, 31 Oct 2006  
> > 08:53:08 +0000):
> > >
> > >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.
> 
> 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