[gentoo-amd64] Re: RAM problem with X

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Luigi Pinna <mailing-gentoo@sailorferris.com> posted
200611261242.24638.mailing-gentoo@sailorferris.com, excerpted below, on 
Sun, 26 Nov 2006 12:42:20 +0100:

> 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.

Unfortunately, firefox isn't known for being the most stable app on the
planet.  There are a lot of folks that use it but can't leave it open for
long periods, or anyway as long as they would if they could, due to they
way it manages/leaks memory.

Unfortunately, flash isn't resource-thrifty either, and being a
source-less binary program, well let's just say it's easy to blame it for
stuff that may or may not be its problem, because it's not open source. 
(As such, it's not going to be on my computer, period, and I'd tend to be
one blaming it, but to be fair, it's easy to blame since it /is/ a black
box we can't see inside of.)  From what I've read, some people find FF's
problems worse when they run flash (just reporting it as I've read it).

So... a couple things that could help, if that is the problem....  One,
get that extension that turns flash embeds into click-links, thereby
avoiding it running unnecessarily.  (I'm a Konqueror fan so don't expect
me to remember the name of the FF extension...)  Two, shut down FF when
you aren't using it.

Of course, I'd /rather/ you simply decided proprietaryware flash wasn't
worth it, but it's your computer and your decision, and not one that I'd
make for you even if I could, as what sort of freedom would I believe in
then. =8^)

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