Xorg leaking memory on -current...

[Matthew D. Fuller]

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.


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