xorg 6.9.0 mem leak

[Matt Reimer]

On 2/1/06, Randy Bush <randy at 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