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] -- 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/20130528162519.gc12...@angelina.example.com
