On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 08:46 -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote: > Tomasz Kłoczko wrote: > > Before refresh: > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > > 3253 root 16 0 1480m 845m 8148 S 12 42.0 787:18.00 Xorg > > > > After five time ctrl-r: > > 3253 root 15 0 1480m 864m 8148 R 8 42.9 787:30.59 > > Xorg > > > > RES groves ~19MB. This png file have 1000x1000 pixels and X display > > depth is 24bpp. 1000x1000x3 = ~3MB .. so looks like buffer for keep this > > previous version of this files was not released. > > > > Can you check this on your system using above scenario ? > > Try to open gif/png file which will take big amount of memory in > > uncompressed form (1MB or more). > > And when you close the web browser what happens? Chances are that the > web browser is leaking pixmaps. That's something not uncommon. What he said. Check firefox's resource usage in xrestop as you do this. It's probably growing at about the same rate. X is a server process, it can only do what its clients ask of it. If the client says "hey, here's a 30M pixmap, hold onto it for me", well, that's what it'll do. - ajax -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
