404672 - [mlk] Rampant Leaking on Idle/Refresh

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 404645

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Erin 'Folletto' Casali]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/523.12 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.4 Safari/523.12
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9b1) Gecko/2007110903 Firefox/3.0b1

Mac OSX 10.4.11, Firefox 3.0b1, brand new clean profile.

I was trying to track down a render bug while I noticed that my system was slowing down. Looking at the Activity Monitor I noticed that Firefox was using 800Mb+ of RAM, raising fast.
Forced down.

Reopened it, reloaded the HTML file but after a few refreshes it started again and I've seen going it up by 10-20mb each second.

I didn't have any tool to track it down, so I've fired "Sample" from Activity Monitor, recording 3 samples.
I even tried to make Fx crash in order to get a report, but nothing.

I know that this isn't much useful, but I lost the last 2 hours trying to reproduce this reliably, but nothing. Feel free to close it if the samples aren't enough to do anything.

I'm using Portable Firefox CX for OSX to launch a clean profile. I don't know it this could be useful, but I'm trying to cover everything.



Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
I can't reproduce it reliably. :(



Actual Results:  
Skyrocketing RAM usage. Up 10-20mb each second.




Expected Results:  
Stable RAM usage at idle. :P

Comment 1

[Erin 'Folletto' Casali]

Attachment: Sample of Firefox On Memchomping 1

Comment 2

[Erin 'Folletto' Casali]

Attachment: Sample of Firefox On Memchomping 2

Same session, still raising...

Comment 3

[Erin 'Folletto' Casali]

Attachment: Sample of Firefox On Memchomping 3

...still raising. Last sample taken.

Comment 4

[philippe (part-time)]

That was on this site: http://im.digitalhymn.com/ I think ?
I noticed that madness as well, when viewing it with Fx b1 to analyse bug 404660.
Minefield latest nightly and my Camino trunk build didn't have any problem.

Comment 5

[Erin 'Folletto' Casali]

Hi Philippe. :P
Yes, that was what I was working on when I noticed this issue.
I'm glad that it's fixed in some ways on the latest nightly. :)

Comment 6

[philippe (part-time)]

I don't know for sure if it is fixed or not. The latest nightly I have (20071120) is stable on that site (both with the same profile as I used for FX b1, and with my usual profile for nighty builds).

Note similar issues in bug 403481.