Bug#457957: xserver-xorg: X server eats too much memory
On Friday 28 December 2007, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 16:47:33 +0200, Stefanos Harhalakis wrote:
> > X server eats a *lot* of memory. Currently it has a VMsize of 3GB with
> > RSS 1.5GB. ps output:
> >
> > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
> > root 6421 2.6 58.2 3083584 1210180 tty7 SLs+ 11:41 7:49
> > /usr/bin/X -br -nolisten tcp :0 vt7 -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-NfXjOZ
> >
> > I believe that this is reproducable by openning firefox (or konqueror)
> > and visiting google maps for some time.
>
> If that memory gets freed when you kill the firefox process, then it's
> not an X server bug.
Firefox was not running (it died). When X server had 1.5GB of memory,
firefox/iceweasel was not running. Perhaps you should ignore this report
until it happens again and I have more details using xrestop.
Apart from that, I believe that 1.5GB for X server a serious problem when
caused by firefox when visiting google maps. Just go to google maps and watch
the X server memory increasing by each move you do. It takes just a few
minutes to exhaust system memory. Should I fill this bug report against
firefox/iceweasel instead ?
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