Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 13:35:51 +0200 From: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: FireFox memory usage Message-ID: <a891f402-c392-4d2f-fc8d-a397c8d0ab72@netfence.it>
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Hello. I'm on 10.3/amd64 with firefox-esr 52.3.0. Since a few days my 4GiB desktop is crawling due to swap usage and looking at top, I see FireFox using almost 7GiB of RAM (SIZE column), 2.5 of which are "RES". I don't think this is normal, since I'm not doing anything fancy (i.e. running webapps or opening tenth of windows/tabs). I've been using FF for several years and, while I recognize it's constantly getting slower, more bloated and more resource hungry, I find it hard to believe such a sudden rise in memory usage might be normal. One suspect I have is some kind of memory leak, since closing FF and reopening the same sites I had opened before will drop the RAM usage to under 1GiB. I'm lost at what to look at... I don't even know if it's an upstream or FreeBSD problem. I start by asking if anyone else is seeing this and/or if anything in the way it is ported or in its dependencies could be the cause of this. bye & Thanks av.
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