[desktop-discuss] Firefox leaking memory/grows without bounds

[Stuart Maybee]

Just following up on my earlier mail on this topic.  I tried the
suggestions fom Ginn Chen, about modifing the config parameters:

> set browser.sessionhistory.max_entries and
browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers to 0 may help.

However this did not seem to help.

At the moment I am working around the problem by monitoring the RSS with
prstat and killing Firefox when it grows too large.
as to the question of what websites are accessed.   I started a fresh
Firefox last night and left tabs sitting at the following pages in my
browser.  With no clicks whatsoever overnight in ~8 hours the RSS grew
from 73M to 106M.

Tabs at:
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/forecast/MapClick.php?FcstType=text&textField1=40.1846122741699&textField2=-105.1198806762695&site=den&Radius=0&CiTemplate=0&TextType=1
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=10308722#post10308722
http://www.google.com/
file:///net/xenbld.sfbay/disk3/smaybe/matrix/webrev/index.html

Any more thoughts?  I am somewhat suspicious that the avsforum site may
be what is causing the problem since it has a flashing ad at the top of
the page.  However, it seems to me that if that causes unbounded growth
in Firefox it is a serious problem with Firefox.

			Stu

On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 18:31 +0800, Brian Lu wrote:
> Can you tell me which websites have you accessed?
> 
> Brian
> 
> Stuart Maybee wrote:et browser.sessionhistory.max_entries and browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers to 0 may help.
> > I am currently running firefox 2.0.0.2 on a Nevada 48 Solaris Build.  I have noticed that Firefox keeps growing its RSS seemingly without bound.  I have also seen this with the earlier1.x version of Firefox I was running previously.  On startup it is a fairly reasonable 72M or so RSS, yet just while sitting idle overnight with 5 tabs at various web pages it grew to 158M RSS.  As I continue to use it, it keeps growing.  Over the course of a week or so It grew to over 900M RSS and throws my poor 2Gig workstation into a paging fit eventually.  (causing enough of Xorg to get paged or swapped out that my desktop effectively locks up for several minutes at a time while the disk light flashes furiously).
> > Some google research indicated I should try setting browser.cache.memory.enable in about:config to false.  However that does not seem to have halted the inexorable growth of Firefox's RSS.  Does anybody have any suggestions of something else to try? or is this a FAQ/known problem that I missed the simple fix for?  Thanks for any help,
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> >                                                                       Stu Maybee
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