Re: [gentoo-amd64] RAM problem with X

[Michel Merinoff <mike_merinov@yahoo.co.uk>]

Luigi Pinna wrote:
> Hi!
> Since when xorg 7 became stable, it found some problems with stability
> of my graphic session.
> I wrote some times ago but nothing helped to solve this strange
> situation...
> The problem is that the X process starts to eat all available memory
> (first RAM and after swap) until that to kill everything (first
> applications and after keyboard and kernel).
> Until same days ago all my trials gave no solution.
> That was the same with KDE and blackbox graphic environment.
> I restarted X server each 5-6 hours and put free memory again (and that
> system worked)
> Same 2 days my session run stable without new restart.
> I think that a found the problem: firefox-bin.
> If I use that program (to use flash website) and I forget it open, X
> process starts to eat the memory; if I close it the problem diseappear
> and very slowly it releases the memory.
> Someone notice a similar problem?
> It is a bug? Where I must send it? As xorg or firefox-bin bug?
> I run a stable system (xorg-7.1).
> Each  piece of advice is welcome.
> Thanks a lot,
> Luigi
Yes, this is a problem of firefox in general (why first I wrote
"genetal"?). It exists in windows' firefox, and obviously in *nix. I
reported the problem months ago, and nothing changed.

The problem, as far as I remember, was the firefox blocks pop-up
windows, thus growing in memory until you close it. Check, if there are
any pop-ups in the site causes the problem.
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