Xorg leaking memory on -current...

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Vince <jhary at unsane.co.uk> (Wed, 01 Nov 2006 08:55:43 +0000):

> Scott Long wrote:
> > Peter Jeremy wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2006-Oct-31 15:38:47 -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> >>> Both Mozilla and Firefox appear to cache everything they can, without
> >>> bounds.  If you tweak a hidden pref to turn off caching, the 'leak'
> >>> goes away.
> >>
> >> I don't suppose you know the name.  I can't see anything obvious
> >> in about:config
> >>
> > 
> > browser.cache.memory.enable on seamonkey.  I recall it having a
> > different name in the past, though.
> > 
> I know this is getting OT but in FF 1.5.0.7 at least you can tweak
> browser.cache.memory.capacity  which should a least limit this behaviour
> a little (havent tested how well it honours this though.)

It doesn't change the swap filling behavior I see (at least not on
Solaris where I have fun with this problem since at least a year and
where I use this already since at least half a year).

Bye,
Alexander.

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