Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 05:06:12 -0800 From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> To: freebsd gnome <freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: firefox leakage Message-ID: <17375.24772.558397.969525@roam.psg.com>
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i386, freebsd 7-current, ibm thinkpad t41 i have tracked a major memory leak (2g in a day, resulting in crash) to the current build firefox. result of top -S -osize PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU COMMAND 2166 randy 4 20 0 166M 108M kserel 3:51 0.00% firefox-bin 1343 randy 1 96 0 126M 83500K select 2:44 2.00% Xorg 1394 randy 4 20 0 102M 51456K kserel 0:08 0.00% nautilus and five hours later PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU COMMAND 1343 randy 1 102 0 334M 277M select 10:06 15.28% Xorg 12780 randy 4 20 0 149M 85364K kserel 0:27 0.00% firefox-bin 1394 randy 4 20 0 102M 51420K kserel 0:11 0.00% nautilus notice the growth in xorg and only xorg so i ran xrestop and it's all firefox res-base Wins GCs Fnts Pxms Misc Pxm mem Other Total PID Identifier 5400000 532 44 1 12216 155 385312K 18K 385330K ? International 3a00000 0 0 0 1 0 2887K 0B 2887K ? <unknown>ox International is an open firefox tab. if i close that one, the excess is just charged to a different tab. and it just keeps growing and growing and growing and ... randy
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