Bug 711003 - Huge memory leak in firefox
Summary: Huge memory leak in firefox
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Status: CLOSED CANTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firefox
Version: 15
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
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Assignee: Gecko Maintainer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-06-06 07:45 UTC by Carl-Johan Kjellander
Modified: 2018-04-11 13:04 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2011-08-29 12:43:54 UTC
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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
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