Re: Xorg high memory usage
Veljko writes:
> 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]
My laptop is also using the open source radeon driver. The problem
could be that iceweasel/firefox are trying to store the images into the
GPU's RAM, but the driver places them in the RAM instead.
--
Alberto
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