Closed
Bug 261988
Opened 20 years ago
Closed 19 years ago
Memory leak in NPN_GetURL/NPP_Write/NPP_DestroyStream calls
Categories
(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
EXPIRED
People
(Reporter: brad, Unassigned)
References
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Details
(Keywords: memory-leak)
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/125.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.9 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv: 1.7.3) Calls to NPN_GetURL (and subsequent calls to NPP_Write and NPP_DestroyStream) result in a memory leak approximately the size of the data returned from the requested URL. We have modified our plugin software (WxScopePlugin, located at http://sdg.ocs.ou.edu) to only use those calls and not store the data returned from the calls in any local storage itself, yet the leak persists, pointing to a leak in the Mozilla/Firefox code itself. This only occurs on the Windows build. Firefox/MacOS X does not leak (nor does Safari, or Netscape 4.x for Windows, yes we still keep that around for testing). To reproduce this, download our plugin softwware, then go to <http://sdg.ocs.ou.edu/people/brad/ leak/obs_refresh.wxml>. The map shows a single observation product that requests data every 10 seconds (the lower threshold for our plugin). Memory usage should rise accordingly. We also modified our plugin locally specifically for testing by placing a single call to NPN_GetURL (which calls the static exported geturl function) for a URL, then repeated that NPP_GetURL call in NPP_DestroyStream, thus resulting in endless requests for the site, while also eliminating any of our own allocation methods. If you would like a copy of this plugin, please link Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Download and install WxScopePlugin (available http://sdg.ocs.ou.edu). Manually copy NPWXM32.DLL from "Program Files/WxScopePlugin" to Firefox's plugins folder (version 10.1 does not install for Firefox) 2. Open http://sdg.ocs.ou.edu/people/brad/leak/obs_refresh.wxml. 3. Observe memory usage growing. Actual Results: Memory usage grew at approximately the size of the data returned from the URL requested in the map document linked above (http://sdg.ocs.ou.edu/people/brad/Data/testmdf.mdf) every time the plugin requested the file (every 10 seconds). Expected Results: Memory usage should have remained constant over time.
Comment 1•20 years ago
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Moving to correct Product/component.
Assignee: firefox → nobody
Severity: normal → critical
Component: General → Plug-ins
Keywords: mlk
Product: Firefox → Browser
QA Contact: firefox.general → core.plugins
Version: unspecified → Trunk
Comment 2•20 years ago
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Jst, can yopu take a look at this and see if we leak in NPN_GetURL/NPP_Write/NPP_DestroyStream
Comment 3•19 years ago
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This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01". This bug has had no comments for a long time. Statistically, we have found that bug reports that have not been confirmed by a second user after three months are highly unlikely to be the source of a fix to the code. While your input is very important to us, our resources are limited and so we are asking for your help in focussing our efforts. If you can still reproduce this problem in the latest version of the product (see below for how to obtain a copy) or, for feature requests, if it's not present in the latest version and you still believe we should implement it, please visit the URL of this bug (given at the top of this mail) and add a comment to that effect, giving more reproduction information if you have it. If it is not a problem any longer, you need take no action. If this bug is not changed in any way in the next two weeks, it will be automatically resolved. Thank you for your help in this matter. The latest beta releases can be obtained from: Firefox: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/ Thunderbird: http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/releases/1.5beta1.html Seamonkey: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/
Comment 4•19 years ago
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This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → EXPIRED
Updated•2 years ago
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Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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