Xorg leaking memory on -current...

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> (from Tue, 31 Oct 2006  
08:53:08 +0000):

>> Do you have any long-running clients?  X clients can store objects in
>> the server and some web browsers have been known to simulate Xserver
>> leaks.
>
> 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. When I closed firefox  
several times, X has eaten too much and everything (on the desktop)  
comes to a crawl (more or less). Restarting the X server (xorg BTW)  
everything is back to normal.

AFAIK it's a know firefox bug which isn't even fixed in firefox 2.0  
(despite a lot of requests from users).

Bye,
Alexander.

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