1931716 - Browser Kept Eating up RAM to the max, stopping the specific process in the task manager fix the issue temporarily.

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Performance: Memory, defect)

Description

[vixelrivs947]

Attachment: Saved memory Reports and Video Demo.rar

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:132.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/132.0

Steps to reproduce:

Opening Firefox Normally, and open a minimum of 1 random website

Actual results:

After a awhile a specific process shows up and use some cpu and ram, CPU ussage stopped at some point but RAM kept increasing until it hit max available memory, in about:processes github.com seems tobe what causes it, and shows 12gb in use but it will kept increasing till, last time I checked was 34gb more than whats available

Expected results:

Worked normally, browse meme videos and monke happy

Comment 1

[vixelrivs947]

(In reply to vixelrivs947 from comment #0)

Created attachment 9438166 [details]
Saved memory Reports and Video Demo.rar

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:132.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/132.0

Steps to reproduce:

Opening Firefox Normally, and open a minimum of 1 random website

Actual results:

After a awhile a specific process shows up and use some cpu and ram, CPU ussage stopped at some point but RAM kept increasing until it hit max available memory, in about:processes github.com seems tobe what causes it and shows 12gb in use but it will kept increasing till, last time I checked was 34gb which is more than whats available on my system...

Expected results:

Worked normally, browse meme videos and monke happy

Comment 2

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

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

Comment 3

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

This bug was moved into the Performance component.

:vixelrivs947, could you make sure the following information is on this bug?

• For slowness or high CPU usage, capture a profile with http://profiler.firefox.com/, upload it and share the link here.
• For memory usage issues, capture a memory dump from about:memory and attach it to this bug.
• Troubleshooting information: Go to about:support, click "Copy raw data to clipboard", paste it into a file, save it, and attach the file here.

If the requested information is already in the bug, please confirm it is recent.

Thank you.

Comment 4

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

Redirect a needinfo that is pending on an inactive user to the triage owner.
:fdoty, since the bug has recent activity, could you have a look please?

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Comment 5

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

The severity field is not set for this bug.
:jlink, could you have a look please?

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