[Bug 137764] Re: Firefox caches pixmaps to X11, need feature to disable

[Marc Tardif]

By caching pixmaps to X11, it is possible that Xorg might crash the
system or render it unusable. This occured in an LTSP context and the
workaround was to add the following lines to the script calling startx.
This essentially sets a ulimit on Xorg to about 80% of the memory:

X_RAMPERC=${X_RAMPERC:-100}

if [ ${X_RAMPERC} -lt 100 ]; then
    XMEM=0
    while read TYPE VALUE UNITS; do
        case ${TYPE} in
            MemFree:|SwapFree:)
                XMEM=$((${XMEM} + ${VALUE}))
                ;;
        esac
    done < /proc/meminfo
    XMEM=$((${XMEM} * ${X_RAMPERC} / 100))

    ulimit -m ${XMEM}
fi

Please note this is only a workaround and might not be appropriate in
every context. However, I thought it might be useful to share this
knowledge.

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Firefox caches pixmaps to X11, need feature to disable
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/137764
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