[Clug-tech] Firefox memory leak on laptop

[Gustin Johnson]

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I have had a Firefox 3 window open for a week with no problem.  I would
look at your extensions first (disable all of them).

One of the sites you were visiting could have been compromised,  or it
could be badly written javascript.

Personally I use noscript and only enable what I need to.

Hth,

John Jardine wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 14:37 -0700, Tom Weniger wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 1:03 AM, John Jardine
>> <john_e_jardine at spamcop.net> wrote:
>>         At this point I'm betting on memory leak.  I've spent the last
>>         90min
>>         shopping for a new colour laser printer (hey, I get presents
>>         at
>>         Christmas too).  During that time I've chewed up another 80MB
>>         of RAM.
>>         Can't pin that on FireFox because I didn't check memory usage
>>         at
>>         startup.  I should suffer too much from rogue Javascript
>>         because I surf
>>         with ABP on and only selectively enable.
>>         
>>         
>>         
>>         On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 00:18 -0700, Mark Carlson wrote:
>>         > Sounds strange to me.  I think you should check with the
>>         Ubuntu forum
>>         > or bug tracker.  It could be a known issue, or it could be a
>>         Firefox
>>         > issue, perhaps aggravated by a web site you are visiting.
>>          Of course,
>>         > this is assuming that there is not some sort of malicious
>>         JavaScript
>>         > running.
>>         >
>>         > -Mark C.
>>         >
>>         > On 11/28/08, John Jardine <john_e_jardine at spamcop.net>
>>         wrote:
>>         > > Hi,
>>         > >
>>         > >  Got a strange one...
>>         > >  I have Ubuntu Hardy 64-bit desktop installed on my
>>         laptop.  I leave
>>         > >  FireFox (3.0.4), Konsole (1.6.6), Nautilus (2.22.5.1) and
>>         OpenOffice
>>         > >  (2.4.1) running while I go do something else for a couple
>>         of hours.
>>         > >
>>         > >  When I come back my laptop is sluggish - no instant
>>         resume behaviour.  I
>>         > >  notice that the HDD light is on solidly.  After 30sec or
>>         so the system
>>         > >  is back enough that I have access to a terminal session.
>>          Running "free"
>>         > >  shows that I have very little (16MB) free RAM out of 2GB,
>>         and my 5GB
>>         > >  swap file is almost completely full.
>>         > >
>>         > >  After stopping & restarting Firefox I see that I'm using
>>         only 343MB of
>>         > >  swap and 472MB of RAM, I've got 1.581GB of RAM free.
>>          That's a helluva
>>         > >  leak somewhere!
>>         > >
>>         > >  Quitting FireFox seems to clear the swapfile but I gotta
>>         wonder - what
>>         > >  was FireFox doing that it needed so much memory - or is
>>         this a known
>>         > >  memory leak behaviour?
>>         > >
>>         > >  Cheers,
>>         > >  J.J.
>>         > >
>>         > >
>>         
>>
>> Greetings John,
>>
>> What does top show? Any pids chewing on a large amount of virtual
>> memory?
>>
>> -- 
>> Virtually,
>> Tom Weniger
>> Registered Linux user #243493
> 
> Not any more:)  FireFox had over 3GB at one point.  I thought that was
> a bit excessive - even if I did have around 15 tabs open.
> Stopping/Starting FF recovered it all.  I was just surprised to hit a
> leak that bad.
> 
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