Re: Xorg high memory usage

[Veljko <veljko3@gmail.com>]

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 04:20:04PM +0200, Linux-Fan wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Linux-Fan

I asked friend of mine, who is still running Squeezy, to test it and Xorg
behaves nicely. 


As for graphics drivers, I'm using open source radeon drivers.

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS780L [Radeon HD 3000]