Matt Trostel wrote: > Wondering if I'm the only lucky one to experience this: > > Invoke vncserver to start an Xvnc session. > Connect to the Xvnc session via vncviewer. > Invoke firefox within the Xvnc session. > > At this point, the memory consumption of the Xvnc job is around 20 MB, > which about par for a typical Xvnc memory footprint. > > However, if one leaves everything running, the Xvnc memory footprint > slowly balloons up to >1 GB (over a period of a week or so), and general > mayhem ensues.
Firefox does that with all X servers - it's caching all the images for all your tabs. For much more discussion on it, see: http://primates.ximian.com/~federico/news-2005-11.html#moz-images http://primates.ximian.com/~federico/news-2007-09.html#firefox-memory-1 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259672 -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
