X Server VmSize and VmRss: Excessive ?????
Paul Collins
paul at briny.ondioline.org
Sun Mar 26 05:55:49 PST 2006
Howard Thomson <howard.thomson at dial.pipex.com> writes:
> I have a 2Gb dual-processor X86-64 system, and am frustrated that when my X
> server size reaches 1.2+ Gb, with VmRss (Resident Set Size) if 1+ Gb, my
> system slows to a crawl.
>
> This is primarily in relation to web browsing, where Firefox has (currently)
> reached 1.12Gb VmSize and 236Mb VmRss, with combined X + Firefox VmSize of
> 2.4 Gb, which seems massively excessive!
>
> Is this likely to be a memory leak problem in X, Firefox or both, or is it a
> configuration problem or limitation where it should be possible to configure
> a limit on RAM cacheing ?
>
> I admit to being an avid news reader, opening and closing tabs for news items
> almost continuously, but for my system to get to a point where minutes (!)
> pass by simply to see the cursor move is RIDICULOUS !!!!!!!!
Firefox used to have a bug where it would leak (or at least fail to
dispose of) the memory for closed tabs. IIRC the workaround was to
open a new window and close the window that had held all of the
now-closed tabs.
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