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From: Catalin Trifu <catalin@××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: X or firefox or nvidia leaks ? or I do :)
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 21:41:19
Message-Id: dsqu2c$8cm$1@sea.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] X or firefox or nvidia leaks ? or I do :) by Catalin Trifu
1 btw: nvidia-kernel-1.0.8178-r3
2 mozilla-firefox-bin-1.5.0.1
3 xorg-server-1.0.1-r2
4 mozilla-thunderbird-1.5-r1
5
6 Catalin Trifu wrote:
7 > Hi,
8 >
9 > On my Dell P4 3.06Ghz, 1.2GB RAM (1GB swap), Nvidia Go5200 and with shiny
10 > suspend2-sources-2.6.15-r5, modular xorg-server with only firefox-bin,
11 > thunderbird and a terminal opened on top of KDE I got my resources
12 > exhauested in one day.
13 > I left the computer open and left home (no background processes doing
14 > nasty things or anything like that) and when I got back pmap on X shows this:
15 >
16 > Address Kbytes Mode Offset Device Mapping
17 > 08048000 1528 r-x-- 0000000000000000 016:00009 Xorg
18 > 081c6000 56 rw--- 000000000017d000 016:00009 Xorg
19 > 081d4000 1809308 rw--- 00000000081d4000 000:00000 [ anon ]
20 > b54f6000 5124 rw-s- 00000000d347b000 000:0000d nvidia0
21 > .....
22 > mapped: 1844492K writeable/private: 1816832K shared: 13832K
23 >
24 > I assume the [anon] block comes from nvidia. For a firefox-bin with 8-10
25 > open tabs and a thunderbird, that is way too much memory eaten and
26 > quite frankly I have no idea where that comes from.
27 > Any suggestions would be nice, since I don't want to restart my
28 > X server every two hours.
29 > Would installing firefox from sources make any difference, if
30 > it's firefoxes fault that is ?
31 >
32 >
33 > Thanks,
34 > Catalin
35 >
36
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