Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 14:52:18 +0200 (CEST) From: Marco Beishuizen <mbeis@xs4all.nl> To: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FireFox memory usage Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1709151437290.2022@yokozuna> In-Reply-To: <a891f402-c392-4d2f-fc8d-a397c8d0ab72@netfence.it> References: <a891f402-c392-4d2f-fc8d-a397c8d0ab72@netfence.it>
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On Fri, 15 Sep 2017, the wise Andrea Venturoli wrote: > 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. I also use ff-esr on an old machine with 4GB RAM. It starts with 2 processes, one uses ~300MB (RES) and one ~150MB. It doubles in size quite quickly after some browsing (especially something like Facebook or Linkedin). When watching YT videos it grows to ~1GB. The SIZE column is ~1.5GB here. Note that the only add-on I use is uBlock Origin. Although I think these sizes have become quite ridiculous, I never saw memory usage that big. But I have to say I usually close FF if memory usage gets out of hand. Regards, Marco -- A political man can have as his aim the realization of freedom, but he has no means to realize it other than through violence. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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