Huge memory use after a few days of web and large email account use macos
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(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)
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(Not tracked)
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(Reporter: rick, Unassigned)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.6
Steps to reproduce:
I have been using SeaMonkey for 5+ years. Last year or os its memory footprint on MacOS is massive.
Keen to understand if this is web, email, or some other feature issue as it doesn't seem obvious what is hording memory. I have two large IMAP email accounts which may be unique to my usage, otherwise web browsing is modest.
Actual results:
7+ GBytes earlier today before I Save and Quit, then restart it.
Expected results:
Les than a 1 GByte memory usage over many days of useage. Safari seems to have quite small memory footprint for example, same web usage (sans email client usage).
No other web browser/email client consumes 6+ GBytes RAM like recent SeaMonkey on MacOS
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Comment 2•3 years ago
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Safari seems to have quite small memory footprint for example, same web usage (sans email client usage).
Yes from your image about 2+ GB and Chrome about 2.5GB both uncompressed. They just hide it better with multiprocess.
2.53.7 has some fixes but 1 GB was 3 years ago with current website design. If you don't use an ad- and scriptblocker this is what happens.
(In reply to Rick from comment #0)
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.6
Steps to reproduce:
I have been using SeaMonkey for 5+ years. Last year or os its memory footprint on MacOS is massive.
Keen to understand if this is web, email, or some other feature issue as it doesn't seem obvious what is hording memory. I have two large IMAP email accounts which may be unique to my usage, otherwise web browsing is modest.
Actual results:
7+ GBytes earlier today before I Save and Quit, then restart it.
Expected results:
Les than a 1 GByte memory usage over many days of usage. Safari seems to have quite small memory footprint for example, same web usage (sans email client usage).
Oops, omitted that the main reason I opened this bug is the incredible pauses and slowness that occurs after having Seamonkey open for more than a day. Safari and Chrome have at least as many tab and windows open with no such delays. I can only imagine there is paging from disk or something going on, it is maddening and makes Seamonkey essentially useless until you restart. It could be the massive IMAP email accounts that may be unique to my usage. But something is off.
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Comment 4•3 years ago
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2.53.7 has one leakage fix in with imap accounts. You can pick the 2.53.7b1 beta now if you want. The final will be available in a week or two. It will have only 3 minor fixes over the beta auch can just install it over.
Do at least try to do about.memory reports and compare them.
Wow, had no idea about:memory was a thing ... will try some testing with beta!
... seeing negative memory allocations?
version 2.53.7 beta 1 seems much less laggy, so maybe the IMAP memory fixes are helping?
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