Luigi Pinna wrote: > Hi! > Since when xorg 7 became stable, it found some problems with stability > of my graphic session. > I wrote some times ago but nothing helped to solve this strange > situation... > The problem is that the X process starts to eat all available memory > (first RAM and after swap) until that to kill everything (first > applications and after keyboard and kernel). > Until same days ago all my trials gave no solution. > That was the same with KDE and blackbox graphic environment. > I restarted X server each 5-6 hours and put free memory again (and that > system worked) > Same 2 days my session run stable without new restart. > I think that a found the problem: firefox-bin. > If I use that program (to use flash website) and I forget it open, X > process starts to eat the memory; if I close it the problem diseappear > and very slowly it releases the memory. > Someone notice a similar problem? > It is a bug? Where I must send it? As xorg or firefox-bin bug? > I run a stable system (xorg-7.1). > Each piece of advice is welcome. > Thanks a lot, > Luigi Yes, this is a problem of firefox in general (why first I wrote "genetal"?). It exists in windows' firefox, and obviously in *nix. I reported the problem months ago, and nothing changed.
The problem, as far as I remember, was the firefox blocks pop-up windows, thus growing in memory until you close it. Check, if there are any pop-ups in the site causes the problem. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -- [email protected] mailing list
