Bug 184557 – www-client/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.4 - informationfreeway.org causes X.org to eat huge amounts of memory

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Stefan de Konink 2007-07-08 01:25:45 UTC]

For quite some time now I'm tolerating that my X.org server causes my system to swap extensively on a webpage. This issue doesn't seem to happen to any other person using this webpage.

http://www.informationfreeway.org/

Has got a large amount of images, that form a map. Zooming into the map results in 60+% of memory usage by the X process. While normally it uses around 10% of memory. Honestly I find this quite bizarre.

x11-base/xorg-server-1.3.0.0
www-client/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.4


I'm using the Xinerama extension now, but this was not specific for this problem. It occurred before too. ...and I'm using the nvidia driver.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. goto http://www.informationfreeway.org
2. browse around
3. see memory usage of X increases
4. system becomes slow because of swapping
5. closing firefox, eventually solves te problem

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-07-08 08:05:55 UTC]

Stefan, you'll need to persuade mozilla upstream that Xserver is not intended as a storage for uncompressed images, we can't fix this.

[Comment 2 Stefan de Konink 2007-07-08 13:58:14 UTC]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259672

It seems to be fixed in the Alpha version of Firefox 3. As it was a leak...

[Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-07-08 14:17:02 UTC]

Well, fixed is not a correct resolution until this gets to the tree.

[Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-07-08 14:17:15 UTC]

Marking UPSTREAM.