[Opera-Linux] OK, what can I do about Opera's never-ending thirst for memory?!

[Kenneth Crudup]

Hey, I just discovered "xrestop"; it'll tell me the amount of memory
being used by the components and Windows of the X Window System. I just
started the latest Opera snapshot, and xrestop looks like this:

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xrestop - Display: :0.0
          Monitoring 46 clients. XErrors: 2
          Pixmaps:   75033K total, Other:     328K total, All:   75361K total

res-base Wins  GCs Fnts Pxms Misc   Pxm mem  Other   Total   PID Identifier
0e00000    70    2    1   26 1992    19348K     49K  19397K   ?   compiz
4400000  1486   22    1 1371  652    16403K     51K  16455K 11044 Index of /unix/10-unite/x86_64-linux - Opera
1e00000   468   91    1  200  337    14654K     22K  14676K  5878 emerald
6000000   206   50    1   56   94     7140K      9K   7149K 12439 AndroidEssentials_pdf_1360_1360457-827940-820192-97814
5c00000    57   49    1   18   60     4179K      4K   4184K  1544 amd-serv - Remote Desktop Viewer
1400000    68   61    1   23   63     2428K      5K   2434K  5863 x-nautilus-desktop
0000000     2    0    2    0  138     2296K      5K   2302K   ?   <unknown>
6400000     0    0    0    1    0     2296K      0B   2296K   ?   <unknown>
0800000   155  258    1  209  221     1908K     15K   1924K  6579 [BUG REPORT] NVIDIA 180.60 leaks memory - nV News Foru
5800000    84   50    1   22   69      750K      5K    755K 27346 Buddy List
1200000   227   74    0   24  144      644K     10K    654K  5862 Panel
3e00000    47   53    1    3   16      384K      3K    387K  5875 <unknown>
2000000    77   67    1   22   56      268K      5K    274K  5871 Wicd Manager
4600000   194   75    1   18   78      129K      9K    139K  6304 hp9800 Xterm 50x120 8860 (/dev/pts/3) - Terminal
2200000    58   73    0   20   59      130K      4K    134K  5892 PulseAudio Applet Preferences
1800000    25   64    1   17   57      128K      4K    132K  5868 Bluetooth Applet
3600000   102   39    0    8   38      128K      4K    132K  5899 sshmenu-applet
2c00000    12   45    0   16   41      129K      2K    132K  5915 Volume Applet
3000000    36   39    1   18   60      128K      4K    132K  5926 netspeed_applet2
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Also, I'm running, on the machine only running XVnc headless, a clone of
the very ~/.opera dir that's on my laptop, and will be checking for memory
usage on that box as well as I surf on it.

	-Kenny

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Kenneth R. Crudup  Sr. SW Engineer, Scott County Consulting, Los Angeles
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