Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 11:51:05 -0700 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: Don Lewis <truckman@freebsd.org> Cc: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>, Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it>, FreeBSD Ports ML <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FireFox memory usage Message-ID: <CAN6yY1v4uktHX4mz7_Tu_6nV0C3_6aW7ycY3bRCA%2Bez06oNzKw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201709151805.v8FI5GDZ049767@gw.catspoiler.org> References: <59BBCB8C.8060103@grosbein.net> <201709151805.v8FI5GDZ049767@gw.catspoiler.org>
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On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 11:05 AM, Don Lewis <truckman@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 15 Sep, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > > On 15.09.2017 18:35, 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. > > > > It leaks like female animal under Windows, too. This depends heavily on > your > > set of addons, though. For example, NoScript addon may provoke > Javascript code > > of sites to leak memory constantly retrying to get their garbage. > > In such case, close/reopen a tab may help for some period of time. > > Javascript seems to be the culprit in my case. I do run NoScript, but > I'm pretty sure that I had memory consumption issues before I added the > NoScript addon. I keep a huge number of tabs open and I've seen Firefox > consume 40+ GB of memory (I've currently got a lot of RAM and swap > available on my desktop). Firefox memory consumption is what finally > motivated me to do a reinstall to switch from i386 to amd64 several > years ago, and since then was the motivation for a couple of RAM > upgrades. > > Very recent versions of Firefox seem to have fixed this problem for me. > I think this was fixed in the version 54 to 55 upgrade. I probably have > 300-400 tabs open right now and Firefox memory consumption seems to have > stabilized at a bit over 6 GB. It's been running for the last eight > days. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I have also seen significant improvements in both memory use and responsiveness in the last couple of releases. I do use noscript, but still saw major delay for no obvious reason for JavaScript heavy sites like Google applications and Facebook. These appeared rather around v48 and disappeared around v54. -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683
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