184535 - mozilla slowly eats all free heap in the system

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 130157

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[richard ramsden]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

for several reasons I increased the amount of RAM in my system, from 196 meg to
512.  Before upgrading, mozilla used too much memory (30 meg MEM, 50 meg VM),
after upgrading it uses 40- 50 meg MEM, and 50-80 meg VM

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open task manager and mozilla. note MEM Usage and VM Size
2.browse with mozilla
3.

Actual Results:  
MEM Usage and VM Size explode.

Expected Results:  
not used more than executable + memory cache

terminating all mozilla tasks and restarting fixes it, but that's a pain.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Are there any particular pages that lead to trouble?

Comment 2

[richard ramsden]

I did a short test.  On a fresh start of Mozilla, going back and forth 
between  news.com.com and www.cnn.com caused  memory use to slowly 
increase.  Doing a clear memory cache only returned a small portion of 
the over use.  There are a lot of graphics on those sites, no java.

Comment 3

[Frankie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 130157 ***