Closed Bug 404772 Opened 17 years ago Closed 17 years ago

memory leak

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows 2000
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
critical

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 404645

People

(Reporter: kyleechols, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9 Build Identifier: http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.0b1&os=win&lang=en-US When browsing with multiple tabs open, memory usage climbs above 300MB within an hour. This causes the system to slow down and potentially lock up completely. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. open Firefox 3.0 beta 1 2. Open more than one tab 3. watch memory usage in taskmanager Actual Results: System slowed to a crawl, eventually locked up. Expected Results: small memory usage increase due to new tab/engine instance system should have remained stable and somewhat responsive. Please, feel free to contact me with any questions, instructions, or more information requests.
Does this problem also occur in Firefox Safe Mode? (it temporarily disables add-ons and themes, this test will help us narrow down the cause of the problem) See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_Mode
Looks like a bug in an unsupported/disabled plugin there were 3 or 4 I had installed that were listed as disabled. Removing them seems to have cleared the problem I am currently seeing about 54,008K Ram and 46,520K VM usage with those plugins uninstalled and 3tabs open.
It might also be bug 404645, which is an enormous growth of memory when the urlclassifier3.sqlite is being built (first startup). Afterwards, everything should be normal.
This was happening on my work pc, I'll install at home tonight to see if I can verify this on an XP machine also.
Installed at home, the only change to default install is disabling tools -> options -> security -> Tell me if a site i'm visiting is a suspected attack site have 7 tabs open and using: 90,980K Ram 84,804 VM 653 Handles 36 Threads Sites open: gmail.com (logged in) bugzilla.mozilla.org http://www.shwup.com/en/index.jsp http://www.phenix.bnl.gov/WWW/software/luxor/rhiclets/Relativity/java/relRHIClet.html http://www.speakado.com/index.php?lang_id=2 http://www.naturemill.com/ http://www.projectcartoon.com/cartoon/1113 Extensions Installed (all active): Adblock Plus 0.7.5.3 DOM Inpector 1.9b1 FlashGot 0.6.9.9 StumbleUpon 3.15 Plugins: Adobe Acrobat 8.11 Java(TM) Platform SE 6 U3 Microsoft DRM (x2) Mozilla Default Plug-in Shockwave Flash Windows Media Player Plug-in DLL Yahoo Application State Plugin Themes: Firefox Default (only one I have installed) I'm no programmer, so feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that there are a lot of handles and threads open which could be contributing to the high memory utilization. Again, let me know if this is useful or not and what other information might be useful I'll be happy to do whatever I can to help.
Thanks for your report. I'm pretty sure this is the same issue as bug 404645.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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