Bug 711003

Summary:	Huge memory leak in firefox
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Carl-Johan Kjellander <carljohan>
Component:	firefox	Assignee:	Gecko Maintainer <gecko-bugs-nobody>
Status:	CLOSED CANTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	15	CC:	gecko-bugs-nobody, kagesenshi.87, mcepl
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Description Carl-Johan Kjellander 2011-06-06 07:45:34 UTC

Description of problem:
Firefox 4 seens to have a huge memory leak

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
firefox-4.0.1-2.fc15.x86_64
&
firefox-4.0.1-2.fc15.i686


How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use firefox for a few days

  
Actual results:
3  PID %MEM  VIRT SWAP  RES CODE DATA  SHR nFLT nDRT S  PR  NI %CPU COMMAND     
 22238 10.5 3408m 2.5g 840m   36 2.6g  34m  146    0 S  20   0  1.0 firefox     

On my laptop it used up all ram and all swap once.

Expected results:
No leak.

Additional info:
Tried both on i686 and x86_64.

Comment 1 Matěj Cepl 2011-08-29 12:43:54 UTC

We have now Firefox 6 for Fedora 15. http://is.gd/RJ64Du

Please, upgrade and if you can reproduce the issue, please, file a bug in the upstream bugzilla.mozilla.com bug database. That way you get much higher chance of getting an attention of people who can deal with the problem.

Thank you very much