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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