Memory leak ?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » September 16th, 2005, 12:44 am

this is a good topic but can be brutal to read all the post.

may 1.5 put this to rest.

cheers all.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » October 18th, 2005, 8:27 am

Inactivist,
Thanks for the reference on trimming memory on minimizing. Minimizing doesn't really do much. If the memory is needed by another app., it will get paged out to disk anyway. Either way the memory is still allocated and resides in the page file. Trim RAM use now or trim later -- it doesn't make much difference in practice.

VanillaMozilla · Post by **VanillaMozilla** » November 18th, 2005, 1:12 pm

Re: these three posts about Fx crashing under Linux due to a Web page filling all available memory with data:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... 82#1560582
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... 72#1561872 and
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... 83#1564383

<i>This is apparently a Linux bug.</i> Firefox was filled with large images so it consumed all available memory and swap space, and then was terminated without warning. In Linux, a program receive a memory allocation and then be terminated when it tries to use it. See http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... 19#1885219 and http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/lk/lk-9.html , section 9.6.

krimson · Post by **krimson** » December 10th, 2005, 4:47 pm

While section 9.6 may be an explanation for the fact that when I exit firefox (or mozilla suite) all memory is released, I don't understand how it would explain the listing of expired images at about:cache

I've just noticed that your "Memory Leak" link lists at "Functional work-around" a trick I used too.

deadline · Post by **deadline** » December 10th, 2005, 5:55 pm

Is anyone investigating this? I mean anyone at Mozilla .. I assume they must be .. they know why this problem exists .. but they are not saying anything ...Actually, although Firefox does hog the memory on my system . I don't have any problems with crashes .. can't say I notice any tangible slowing of my system either. .. How other browser compare .. I have only ever compared FF and IE .. what other application uses so much memory?

a;skdjfajf;ak · Post by **a;skdjfajf;ak** » December 10th, 2005, 7:14 pm

deadline, yes, there are several item open...read here
DO NOT POST COMMENTS TO THE BUGS UNLESS YOU HAVE A TESTCASE OR FIX:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... 0&start=15

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051210 Firefox/1.5 ID:2005121003

Post by **James** » December 14th, 2005, 12:15 am

Doing a mass combine of all recent memory usage discussions. Please continue in this thread.