243185 - Very fast memory leak in copy/paste (100kb/sec)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 289897

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[halfdog]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

When copying selected data from the table, then the browser starts to accululate
memory very fast at 100kb/sec. Depending on the amount of memory, this crashes
the browser in about 1h time. The leak doesn't depend on pasting the content, it
is sufficient to have it selected. Closing the tab with the selection doesn't
free the memory again.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Load the html file in the attachment
2 [review].Select the whole list in the middle (with the score column at the right).
3. Paste the content into some text window

Actual Results:  
Sometimes the paste works, sometimes the PC justs starts swapping and does nothing

Comment 1

[halfdog]

Attachment: Files to reproduce the bug

Comment 2

[halfdog]

System: Linux version 2.4.20-8 ([e-mail]) (gcc version
3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)) #1 Thu Mar 13 17:54:28 EST 2003

X-Server:XFree86 Version 4.3.0 (Red Hat Linux 9 release: 4.3.0-2.90.43)
Release Date: 15 August 2003
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.21-2.ELsmp i686 [ELF]
Build Date: 07 November 2003
Build Host: porky.devel.redhat.com

KDE Desktop: KDE: 3.1-12 Red Hat
KDesktop: v1.9.8

Mozilla: Got error with mozilla 1.5 and so downloaded 20040510 (version 1.6) a
new one, but error still there

Comment 3

[Daniel Clemente]

Confirmed on Linux 20040510: I select all the text and paste it into nedit, and
with each paste, mozilla (not nedit) consumes more and more memory which is not
freed if I close the tab.

Comment 4

[Tom Graham]

WFM : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040510
Firefox/0.8.0+

Comment 5

[Worcester12345]

mlk keyword?

Comment 6

[Gaëtan LEURENT]

The bug is still there in Mozilla 1.7.6 and Firefox 1.0.2.
On my computer, it leaks at more than 1MByte/sec.

Is anyone trying trying to fix this?

Comment 7

[deneen]

This happens on Windows 2000 (Firefox 1.5B2) as well, and it is very easy to
reproduce.

Here's how I can reproduce it:

1. Open up the task manager to view memory usage.
2. start at http://www.google.com
3. Press CTRL+A to select all
4. Press and hold CTRL+C
5. Watch it grow like a weed.

I can test it on OS X later and test it there as well.  Perhaps then, the OS
might be changed to "All"

Comment 8

[Marcin Slusarz]

the same leak as in bug 289897?

Comment 9

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #8)
> the same leak as in bug 289897?

Halfdog, gaetan, Daniel,

is your problem gone?  If so, please dup this to bug 289897

Comment 10

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

perfer linux and/or windows user to agree it's gone on trunk before duping to bug 289897.

denna:
seen in os x with firefox 1.5.0.4
not present in nightly build

Comment 11

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Deneen reports: "I have checked using a nightly build of Firefox, and the issue is no longer present."

so duping

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 289897 ***