[gentoo-user] X or firefox or nvidia leaks ? or I do :)

[gentoo-user] X or firefox or nvidia leaks ? or I do :)

[Catalin Trifu]

	Hi,

    On my Dell P4 3.06Ghz, 1.2GB RAM (1GB swap), Nvidia Go5200 and with shiny
suspend2-sources-2.6.15-r5, modular xorg-server with only firefox-bin,
thunderbird and a terminal opened on top of KDE I got my resources
exhauested in one day.
    I left the computer open and left home (no background processes doing
nasty things or anything like that) and when I got back pmap on X shows this:

Address   Kbytes Mode  Offset           Device    Mapping
08048000    1528 r-x-- 0000000000000000 016:00009 Xorg
081c6000      56 rw--- 000000000017d000 016:00009 Xorg
081d4000 1809308 rw--- 00000000081d4000 000:00000   [ anon ]
b54f6000    5124 rw-s- 00000000d347b000 000:0000d nvidia0
.....
mapped: 1844492K    writeable/private: 1816832K    shared: 13832K

    I assume the [anon] block comes from nvidia. For a firefox-bin with 8-10
open tabs and a thunderbird, that is way too much memory eaten and
quite frankly I have no idea where that comes from.
    Any suggestions would be nice, since I don't want to restart my
X server every two hours.
    Would installing firefox from sources make any difference, if
it's firefoxes fault that is ?


Thanks,
Catalin

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[gentoo-user] Re: X or firefox or nvidia leaks ? or I do :)

[Catalin Trifu]

    btw: nvidia-kernel-1.0.8178-r3
         mozilla-firefox-bin-1.5.0.1
         xorg-server-1.0.1-r2
         mozilla-thunderbird-1.5-r1

Catalin Trifu wrote:
> 	Hi,
> 
>     On my Dell P4 3.06Ghz, 1.2GB RAM (1GB swap), Nvidia Go5200 and with shiny
> suspend2-sources-2.6.15-r5, modular xorg-server with only firefox-bin,
> thunderbird and a terminal opened on top of KDE I got my resources
> exhauested in one day.
>     I left the computer open and left home (no background processes doing
> nasty things or anything like that) and when I got back pmap on X shows this:
> 
> Address   Kbytes Mode  Offset           Device    Mapping
> 08048000    1528 r-x-- 0000000000000000 016:00009 Xorg
> 081c6000      56 rw--- 000000000017d000 016:00009 Xorg
> 081d4000 1809308 rw--- 00000000081d4000 000:00000   [ anon ]
> b54f6000    5124 rw-s- 00000000d347b000 000:0000d nvidia0
> .....
> mapped: 1844492K    writeable/private: 1816832K    shared: 13832K
> 
>     I assume the [anon] block comes from nvidia. For a firefox-bin with 8-10
> open tabs and a thunderbird, that is way too much memory eaten and
> quite frankly I have no idea where that comes from.
>     Any suggestions would be nice, since I don't want to restart my
> X server every two hours.
>     Would installing firefox from sources make any difference, if
> it's firefoxes fault that is ?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Catalin
> 

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