Re: Xorg high memory usage
On 05/28/2013 10:42 AM, 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
$ Mozilla Iceweasel 20.0
>> 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?
I have tried to reproduce the problem as well but my Xorg's memory usage
stayed constant (about 50M), iceweasel's memory usage went from 180M to
900M during the test. I used a periodic ps invocation to get the data
pasted to http://paste.debian.net/plain/7070, this was the peak output:
-- 28.05.2013 - 16:07:01 up 43 min, 4 users,
load average: 1.51, 0.85, 0.58 --
COMMAND C %MEM VSZ RSS
Xorg 3 0.9 166480 58300
iceweasel 53 15.2 1714556 931832
I am using Debian 7.0.0 "Wheezy", Iceweasel is from Experimental.
Window Manager: Fluxbox, xcompmgr enabled.
Graphics Driver: Debian-packaged Nvidia non-free.
It seems not to depend on Iceweasel and Debian alone ... as already
mentioned by someone else, graphics drivers and such certainly also
influence the result.
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