1387395 - Websocket memory leak

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Networking: WebSockets, defect)

Description

[bato3]

Attachment: about-memory.zip 4 memory reports

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.115 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Open page: https://czat3.shinden.pl/ff-ws.html (1-5 tabs) and observe groving memory.

Open connection to websocket (In my case Faye library) and send messages to server.

FF 54.0.1 (64 bity), 


Actual results:

Memory usage grows, and isn't free after closing tab. In my case, after couple hours FF memory consumption is ~3GB. Friend have crashes.


Expected results:

Better garbage collection

Comment 1

[bato3]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:54.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/54.0

After click all buttons in about:memory -> Free memory - it looks, that memory don't grows

Comment 2

[Eric Rahm [:erahm]]

Those memory reports all look good, is it possible to provide one with the observed behavior?

Comment 3

[bato3]

Attachment: more_reports.zip

Heh, I hate situations like this. Now works for me... 

But yesterday I take info from another user about memory grows until crash FF. After disabling websocket transport - it looks OK.

In archive 2 sets memory dumps from live + prefs.js

I don't remember, but memory00[\n]-report is fresh FF run.

Comment 4

[bato3]

It turned out that after the lock ws still has a problem.