Bug 249947
Summary: | Memory leak in firefox on pages with big number of images | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | denis ivanov <youonly> |
Component: | firefox | Assignee: | Christopher Aillon <caillon> |
Status: | CLOSED CANTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | low | ||
Version: | rawhide | CC: | fche, mcepl, mcepl |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | FF3RawhideClose | ||
Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2007-12-20 16:46:52 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
denis ivanov
2007-07-28 11:49:11 UTC
Not only X server memory problem. Firefox process leaks too: 189 VIRT/63 RES before open pages 328 VIRT/204 RES after open pages and the same after closing tabs with pages! This is the browser cache keeping things in memory so it is very quick if you want to go back to the same page you once visited. If you don't want this, you can disable the feature. There are several preferences. Load up about:config and search for 'cache' and you can tweak to your liking. This is bad idea to keep cache for closed tabs!!! Most of users never use "Undo closed tab" feature. So actually this is memory leak which don't allow continuos using of firefox when surfing big pages. So best solution will be cleaning cache for closed tab. IMHO ;) This bug is *much* deeper. Have just disabled memory cache (browser.cache.memory.enable=false) firefox-bin process no more eats huge memory, it's ok But X process still have problem. I opened 20 pages 100 images each, X grows to ~800Mb RES/1200Mb VIRT memory used even after I closed all tabs in browser! Maybe there is some tool to view X resources allocated by process? Seems firefox just not free some resources. We just updated the Firefox version in Fedora/development from 2.0 to a 3.0 pre-release version, which improves performance, memory usage, and fixes many bugs and crashes. Closing as CANTFIX since we aren't fixing bugs filed against 2.0 now that 3.0 is in. If this bug is still present in rawhide using a Firefox 3.0 version, please re-open this bug. Thanks and Happy Holidays |