From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GoKjG-0006Ic-3V for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 26 Nov 2006 14:11:34 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kAQE9dL1000039; Sun, 26 Nov 2006 14:09:39 GMT Received: from smtp005.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (smtp005.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [217.12.11.36]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kAQE9dJp020485 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2006 14:09:39 GMT Received: (qmail 97783 invoked from network); 26 Nov 2006 14:09:39 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.co.uk; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=2jhn4Xtax9XJU4Du3IGM0vf1hSYWASVUqErUW87ccbWz8vwzgMvSCJXGfcnvXgKmOrVxvUlmC2jocCBflnotdjnAXf6qi6SCqH/7sRGzGxJ89Zkwdu4X8goPYhgSUUdYYqaYXzYinf0TigKJ2cMze8uBGksnjGT7T5xbGgFArCw= ; Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.2?) (mike_merinov@88.83.206.19 with plain) by smtp005.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with SMTP; 26 Nov 2006 14:09:38 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: 5Mj1KUgVM1no2NUpgN6ETzNB12j9NzsyLczjRFcwb.sRrG4tJwCfyh2I9uAcrvhveVvQwl06ARYiR96qAgmvNCXfUkmO6bL.rb.NSpQ1Gi5bc0gmOLg- Message-ID: <4569A0D6.1030709@yahoo.co.uk> Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 17:12:38 +0300 From: Michel Merinoff User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060705) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] RAM problem with X References: <200611261242.24638.mailing-gentoo@sailorferris.com> In-Reply-To: <200611261242.24638.mailing-gentoo@sailorferris.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7dba40c7-1809-4f2b-b4ea-f664286e0928 X-Archives-Hash: aee1469120568f97b56fbc1470e8d583 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. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list