Bug#457957: xserver-xorg: X server eats too much memory
Stefanos Harhalakis wrote:
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 ?
The reason is that Firefox asks the server to create tons of pixmap to
store some images, textures, ... So maybe firefox is asking too much,
but the server should be able to refuse at some point and maybe even
drop some old pixmaps (not sure what it is supposed to do exactly these
days).
Anyway, there are some memory leak fixed in the upcoming Xserver 1.4.1,
we'll see what happens soon.
Brice
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