Veljko writes: > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 04:20:04PM +0200, Linux-Fan wrote: >> I have tried to reproduce the problem as well but my Xorg's memory usage >> stayed constant (about 50M), iceweasel's memory usage went from 180M to >> 900M during the test. I used a periodic ps invocation to get the data >> pasted to http://paste.debian.net/plain/7070, this was the peak output: >> >> -- 28.05.2013 - 16:07:01 up 43 min, 4 users, >> load average: 1.51, 0.85, 0.58 -- >> COMMAND C %MEM VSZ RSS >> Xorg 3 0.9 166480 58300 >> iceweasel 53 15.2 1714556 931832 >> >> I am using Debian 7.0.0 "Wheezy", Iceweasel is from Experimental. >> Window Manager: Fluxbox, xcompmgr enabled. >> Graphics Driver: Debian-packaged Nvidia non-free. >> >> It seems not to depend on Iceweasel and Debian alone ... as already >> mentioned by someone else, graphics drivers and such certainly also >> influence the result. >> >> Linux-Fan > > I asked friend of mine, who is still running Squeezy, to test it and Xorg > behaves nicely. > > > As for graphics drivers, I'm using open source radeon drivers. > > 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI > RS780L [Radeon HD 3000]
My laptop is also using the open source radeon driver. The problem could be that iceweasel/firefox are trying to store the images into the GPU's RAM, but the driver places them in the RAM instead. -- Alberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87d2sa8c4d....@eps142.cdf.udc.es
