Bug 2095791 - extreme memory leak, consumes all available memory and swap
Summary: extreme memory leak, consumes all available memory and swap
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 2095718
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firefox
Version: 36
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Gecko Maintainer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2022-06-10 14:53 UTC by Chris Murphy
Modified: 2022-06-11 19:52 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2022-06-11 19:52:58 UTC
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journal.log (326.19 KB, text/plain)
2022-06-10 14:55 UTC, Chris Murphy
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Description Chris Murphy 2022-06-10 14:53:44 UTC
Description of problem:

There seems to be some kind of extreme memory leak with this version; a zoom session, within minutes, consumes all memory and swap.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
firefox-101.0.1-1.fc36.x86_64
systemd-250.7-1.fc36.x86_64

How reproducible:
consistently


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start a zoom session
2.
3.

Actual results:

Within minutes, all available memory and swap are consumed, and oomd kills the scope assigned to the zoom session. All of Firefox ends up killed too, not sure why.


Expected results:

Shouldn't need such extreme resources.


Additional info:

If I mask oomd, the resource consumption results in the entire shell freezing, including the mouse arrow, and nothing immediately before and including this makes it to the journal. So the logs show nothing, they just end. After a minute of this state, I just forced power off.

Comment 1 Chris Murphy 2022-06-10 14:55:14 UTC
Created attachment 1888725 [details]
journal.log

The only hint I see in this entire log is from oomd at the time of the kill:

Jun 10 09:45:50 fovo.local systemd-oomd[662]: Killed /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user/app.slice/app-gnome-firefox-4369.scope/4369 due to memory used (16076365824) / total (16403767296) and swap used (7871721472) / total (8589930496) being more than 90.00%

Comment 2 Alexander Ploumistos 2022-06-10 15:39:38 UTC
It looks like we're in the same boat, see BZ#2095718.

Comment 3 Martin Stransky 2022-06-11 19:52:58 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2095718 ***


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