Re: Xorg high memory usage
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:42:55AM +0200, Veljko wrote:
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 09:34:22AM +0200, Alberto Luaces wrote:
> > And what about the version numbers for iceweasel and firefox?
>
> Debian:
> iceweasel -v
> Mozilla Iceweasel 10.0.12
>
> Slackware:
> firefox -v
> Mozilla Firefox 21.0
>
> Firefox I downloaded from mozilla.org and I started on Debian:
> ./firefox-bin -v
> Mozilla Firefox 21.0
>
>
> > That behavior is not a good thing, but it is not very surprising to me.
>
> Not good, indeed. This is very important peace of software everybody use.
>
> > It seems that iceweasel is storing all images as X pixmaps, so the
> > memory requirements of the Xorg server grow. Maybe other browsers tend
> > to avoid the issue by not loading all the images in memory
> > simultaneously. Nevertheless, it would be a good thing to know if this
> > is going to stay as is, or if there are plans to reduce that ram
> > compsumption.
>
> Firefox I downloaded behaves exactly like Iceweasel, but only on Debian.
> That's why I'm not sure if problem lies only there. If picture is loaded in
> RAM by browser, why to duplicate it in Xorg?
>
>
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I don't think this is an Xorg issue, just tried the webpage you
suggested on Firefox in Windows 7, same issue, rapid memory usage
growth. Seems more like a Firefox issue, can you try a Nightly [0] build
and see if the issue still exists?
[0] - http://nightly.mozilla.org/
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