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Subject: Re: Firefox memory usage
To: Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br>,
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From: Steve Wills <swills@FreeBSD.org>
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I find something along the lines of:

limits -m 8g -v 8g firefox

helps a lot.

Steve

On 11/8/20 11:51 AM, Mario Lobo wrote:
> Hi;
> 
> Has Firefox just become a major memory gobbler ?
> 
> FF Open:
> 
> SYSTEM MEMORY SUMMARY:
> mem_used:        8104103936 (   7728MB) [ 47%] Logically used memory
> mem_avail:   +   9075765248 (   8655MB) [ 52%] Logically available memory
> -------------- ------------ ----------- ------
> mem_total:   =  17179869184 (  16384MB) [100%] Logically total memory
> 
> After closing FF:
> 
> SYSTEM MEMORY SUMMARY:
> mem_used:        2423656448 (   2311MB) [ 14%] Logically used memory
> mem_avail:   +  14756212736 (  14072MB) [ 85%] Logically available memory
> -------------- ------------ ----------- ------
> mem_total:   =  17179869184 (  16384MB) [100%] Logically total memory
> 
> firefox-82.0.2,2
>