Closed Bug 413399 Opened 17 years ago Closed 14 years ago

Huge Firefox Memory Leak Overnight...

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Version:
3.0 Branch
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

People

(Reporter: jbrdbr111, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b2) Gecko/2007121120 Firefox/3.0b2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b2) Gecko/2007121120 Firefox/3.0b2

I only had two tabs open, one which was Google homepage, the other was my webmail via Juno ... The max memory consumption during my 8 hours of continued use was no more than 33mb, which is great. I went to bed, and when I got up, I came to see that Firefox memory consumption had jumped from 33mb, to more than 337mb in memory usage, simply when I was sleeping and no activity was going on my pc at that time. 

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
Haven't tried to reproduce yet, but will update this tomorrow if I get the same problem overnight..



I have no extensions other than what's the default DOM 1.9b2, and default Firefox theme.. I have a few snaphots of task manager to show how the memory use is not only excessive, but continues to grow even when Firefox is currently idle.
<img src="http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/328/firefoxmemoryleakdx8.png" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/>
<img src="http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/8421/firefoxmemoryleak2tx1.png" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/>
As you can see (if my images go through) the memory climbs from 301mb, to 337mb in around 30 seconds...
Update: This did happen almost exactly the same just last night... Didn't do anything different from last time either..
Is anybody working on this issue, it's continuous quite a bit and makes my computer crash due to sucking up the rest of my available memory.. 
try installing leak monitor?
have a link to one?
tools>add-ons>get add-ons
leak monitor <enter>

it should show up if it's compatible.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2490
 Jeremy, still see this?
Severity: critical → major
Whiteboard: [closeme 2010-02-15]
Version: unspecified → 3.0 Branch
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
Whiteboard: [closeme 2010-02-15]
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