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

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