387304 - Xserver takes a huge amount of memory browsing informationfreeway.org

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 259672

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Stefan de Konink]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; nl; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070610 Firefox/2.0.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; nl; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070610 Firefox/2.0.0.4

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=184557

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.

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


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

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

This is an issue that should be fixed in the current alphas.