226268 - Is that a memory leak I'm seeing?

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 130157

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[PeteVine]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031119 Firebird/0.7+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031119 Firebird/0.7+

Both Mozilla and Firebird display this behaviour. When I open google with
Firebird, memory usage shown by top is 29M. After opening 8 homepage tabs top
shows 55M of used memory. Closing all but one tab and opening google in it again
makes the amount of used memory go down to 50M. In user.js I've got:
user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 4096); so caching cannot be the
culprit here.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

What are the pages in the homepage tabs?  This bug needs _explicit_ steps to
reproduce...

Also see bug 130157 and the discussion therein.  Chances are, that's what you're
seeing...

Comment 2

[PeteVine]

Here are the pages:
http://www.theinquirer.net/|http://osnews.com/|http://slashdot.org/|http://linuxtoday.com/|http://www.theforce.net/|http://www.gsmonline.pl/|http://amdzone.com/|http://www.theregister.co.uk/

Comment 3

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

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