Bug 479538

Summary: Going to http://isc.sans.org causes RSS to jump to about 250 MB
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: ArjenDragt
Component: firefoxAssignee: Christopher Aillon <caillon>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority: low    
Version: 10CC: gecko-bugs-nobody, mcepl, walters
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Hardware: i686   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: firefox-3.0.5-1.fc10.i386 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description ArjenDragt 2009-01-10 21:42:07 UTC
Description of problem:
With a fully up to date Fedora 10 (i686) system, Firefox will use somewhere between 250 and 300 MB (RSS) when browsing to http://isc.sans.org.  There may be other sites that cause the same thing to occur.  So far I am not aware of any.

Firefox available directly from http://www.mozilla.com does not do this.  In that case, memory will spike momentarily but will then drop back down to a reasonable level.


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How reproducible:
Start Firefox.  Browse to isc.sans.org.  Look at memory usage of Firefox.  Tested on a few systems all with the same basic build.  Browsing to a different site (anything else) does NOT free up the memory.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch Firefox
2. Go to isc.sans.org
3. Look at memory usage
  
Actual results:
Memory very high.

Expected results:
Memory use retained at a reasonable level.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Matěj Cepl 2009-01-11 00:24:11 UTC
With firefox-3.0.5-1.fc10.i386 I cannot reproduce this anymore.

Comment 2 ArjenDragt 2009-01-11 21:02:26 UTC
Agreed.  It is still jumping (on my machine) up to about 120 MB RSS.  But that is reasonable.   Thanks.

Comment 3 Matěj Cepl 2009-01-12 11:21:53 UTC
You're very welcome. Thanks for letting us know.

Comment 4 ArjenDragt 2009-01-13 22:56:11 UTC
Re-opening.

On a fully patched Fedora 10 system when I run with the Firefox package as supplied by Fedora, it jumps to 150MB+ RSS memory usage after going to isc.sans.org.  That RAM usage does not drop down when moving away to other sites.

When I run the Firefox from mozilla.com, it jumps a bit when going to isc.sans.org (about 120MB) but then drops down when I move away to other sites.  It looks like the Fedora supplied build is holding some things in memory that the Mozilla build is not.

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Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2009-12-18 07:34:05 UTC
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