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List:       opensolaris-desktop-discuss
Subject:    Re: [desktop-discuss] Firefox leaking memory/grows without bounds
From:       Stuart Maybee <Stuart.Maybee () Sun ! COM>
Date:       2007-04-23 6:44:02
Message-ID: 1177310642.1685.40.camel () lucifer
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Well I am pleased to report that switching to the Flash 9 plugin beta
seems to have cured my problem with Firefox growing without bounds.
Thanks for the help.

				Stu


 On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 15:15 +0800, Ginn Chen wrote:
> Hi Garrett,
> 
> 
> Did you try Flash 9 plugin beta? Get one
> from http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer9.html
> Do you have a testcase that flash eats memory heavily?
> 
> 
> Flash may use a lots of memory in some case.
> But I didn't find significant memory leak with Flash 9 plugin.
> Let me know if you have a clue.
> 
> 
> Ginn
> 
> On Apr 19, 2007, at 1:58 AM, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> 
> > I'm pretty sure the problem is indeed flash.  As long as firefox
> > keeps the flash plugin running in the same process space, bugs in
> > flash are going to affect firefox.
> > 
> > 
> > -- Garrett
> > 
> > 
> > Stuart Maybee wrote:
> > > 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,
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Stu Maybee
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> Ginn Chen
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> Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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