From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Tue Nov 7 23:55:03 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E583E67F4A for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2017 23:55:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) Received: from viclamta10p.bpe.bigpond.com (viclamta10p.bpe.bigpond.com [203.38.21.74]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "", Issuer "Openwave Messaging Inc." (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 69A627925C for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2017 23:54:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) Received: from smtp.telstra.com ([10.10.26.4]) by viclafep33p-svc.bpe.nexus.telstra.com.au with ESMTP id <20171107221630.JNQJ28488.viclafep33p-svc.bpe.nexus.telstra.com.au@smtp.telstra.com> for ; Wed, 8 Nov 2017 09:16:30 +1100 X-RG-Spam: Unknown X-Junkmail-Premium-Raw: score=7/83, refid=2.7.2:2017.11.7.214516:17:7.944, ip=, rules=__HAS_FROM, __TO_MALFORMED_2, __TO_NAME, __TO_NAME_DIFF_FROM_ACC, __BOUNCE_CHALLENGE_SUBJ, __BOUNCE_NDR_SUBJ_EXEMPT, __SUBJ_ALPHA_END, __IN_REP_TO, __HAS_MSGID, __SANE_MSGID, __USER_AGENT, __MIME_VERSION, __CT, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN, __SUBJ_ALPHA_NEGATE, __FORWARDED_MSG, __NO_HTML_TAG_RAW, BODY_SIZE_600_699, BODYTEXTP_SIZE_3000_LESS, __MIME_TEXT_P1, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY, HTML_00_01, HTML_00_10, BODY_SIZE_5000_LESS, IN_REP_TO, MSG_THREAD, __TO_REAL_NAMES, LEGITIMATE_SIGNS, NO_URI_FOUND, NO_CTA_URI_FOUND, BODY_SIZE_1000_LESS, BODY_SIZE_2000_LESS, __MIME_TEXT_P, NO_URI_HTTPS, BODY_SIZE_7000_LESS Received: from aneurin.horsfall.org (110.141.193.233) by smtp.telstra.com (9.0.019.16-1) id 59D6807E057DF3AC for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Wed, 8 Nov 2017 09:16:29 +1100 Received: from aneurin.horsfall.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id vA7MGTAX014725 for ; Wed, 8 Nov 2017 09:16:29 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) Received: from localhost (dave@localhost) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id vA7MGT7U014722 for ; Wed, 8 Nov 2017 09:16:29 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) X-Authentication-Warning: aneurin.horsfall.org: dave owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 09:16:29 +1100 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall To: FreeBSD Ports Subject: Re: Firefox became much slower In-Reply-To: <8aa83d2369d1caa5d702d43bd8a6c9b7@ultimatedns.net> Message-ID: References: , <20171101142026.GA91788@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <8aa83d2369d1caa5d702d43bd8a6c9b7@ultimatedns.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (BSF 202 2017-01-01) X-GPG-Public-Key: http://www.horsfall.org/gpgkey.pub X-GPG-Fingerprint: 05B4 FFBC 0218 B438 66E0 587B EF46 7357 EF5E F58B X-Home-Page: http://www.horsfall.org/ X-Witty-Saying: "chmod 666 the_mode_of_the_beast" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2017 23:55:03 -0000 On Tue, 7 Nov 2017, Chris H wrote: > FWIW Firefox has always leaked memory like water through a sieve. As a > result, no matter how many resources I have on any given system. I can't > leave FF open for any length of time, w/o having to restart it; else > system starts swapping until all resources are exhausted; then panic && > reboot. It got really bad around 53 or so; I wish their programmers (no doubt fresh out of school) would fix existent bugs instead of adding frilly new "features"' we don't all have terabytes of free memory. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."