1807258 - Ram increases over time with GPU acceleration enabled

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Graphics, defect, P3)

Description

[FlyFunMan]

Attachment: memory-report.json.gz

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:108.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/108.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Enable GPU acceleration
2. Use youtube

Actual results:

Firefox uses more and more ram. It has gotten as high as 17 gb out of the 32 gb on my laptop. Firefox task manager says that almost all of it is being used by "GPU". It will continue to increase until Firefox is restarted.

Turning off GPU acceleration solves this issue, but that causes Firefox to flicker.

This issue has occurred since updating to the latest graphics drivers. Before the driver updates, Firefox would use 100% of the integrated GPU but this is no longer an issue.

Expected results:

Other browsers such as Microsoft Edge use less than a gigabyte. Similar results would be expected with Firefox.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Graphics' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Jim Blandy :jimb]

Thanks for reporting this problem. To give us more information about your system, could you visit the URL about:support, click on the button labeled "Copy text to clipboard", and paste it into Bugzilla? Bugzilla should offer to add the text as an attachment, and prompt you for a summary; just type "about:support" and hit "Ok".

Comment 3

[FlyFunMan]

Attachment: about:support

Comment 4

[AliA88]

Somewhat the same issue I posted a bug report here to, when I use Firefox and watch a YouTube video and then move the browser across my desktop while the video is playing ram will just keep filling up and up if uses up all my ram to the point I have no ram left I get a blue screen of death: ntoskrnl.exe irql_not_less_or_equal, when u turn of hardware acceleration Firefox works fine, tested ram and gpu all is well.

Comment 5

[Dave Hunt [:davehunt] [he/him] ⌚BST]

The Performance Impact Calculator has determined this bug's performance impact to be low. If you'd like to request re-triage, you can reset the Performance Impact flag to "?" or needinfo the triage sheriff.

Platforms: Windows
Websites affected: Major
Resource impact: Some

Comment 6

[Ashley Hale [:ahale]]

Given the age of this bug, I doubt this issue still exists as we take this type of leak very seriously whenever a new report shows up, so I'm closing this bug.

There are new instructions at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1902566 for filing a bug with more detail on memory leaks, hopefully that helps if you are still seeing this issue.