An unfortunate further observation: Now, while firefox is well-behaved
with the flash 9 beta, it seems that the problem has transferred to the
X server itself. My Xorg process while running this combination has now
started to grow its RSS till Xorg starts paging/swappoing and locks up
my desktop. Anyone have any further ideas/advice on this?
Thanks,
Stu
On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 00:44 -0600, Stuart Maybee wrote:
> Well I am pleased to report that switching to the Flash 9 plugin beta
> seems to have cured my problem with Firefox growing without bounds.
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Stu
>
>
> On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 15:15 +0800, Ginn Chen wrote:
> > Hi Garrett,
> >
> >
> > Did you try Flash 9 plugin beta? Get one
> > from http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer9.html
> > Do you have a testcase that flash eats memory heavily?
> >
> >
> > Flash may use a lots of memory in some case.
> > But I didn't find significant memory leak with Flash 9 plugin.
> > Let me know if you have a clue.
> >
> >
> > Ginn
> >
> > On Apr 19, 2007, at 1:58 AM, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> >
> > > I'm pretty sure the problem is indeed flash. As long as firefox
> > > keeps the flash plugin running in the same process space, bugs in
> > > flash are going to affect firefox.
> > >
> > >
> > > -- Garrett
> > >
> > >
> > > Stuart Maybee wrote:
> > > > Just following up on my earlier mail on this topic. I tried the
> > > > suggestions fom Ginn Chen, about modifing the config parameters:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > set browser.sessionhistory.max_entries and
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers to 0 may help.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > However this did not seem to help.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > At the moment I am working around the problem by monitoring the
> > > > RSS with
> > > > prstat and killing Firefox when it grows too large.
> > > > as to the question of what websites are accessed. I started a
> > > > fresh
> > > > Firefox last night and left tabs sitting at the following pages in
> > > > my
> > > > browser. With no clicks whatsoever overnight in ~8 hours the RSS
> > > > grew
> > > > from 73M to 106M.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Tabs at:
> > > > http://www.crh.noaa.gov/forecast/MapClick.php?FcstType=text&textField1=40.1846122741699&textField2=-105.1198806762695&site=den&Radius=0&CiTemplate=0&TextType=1
> > > > http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=10308722#post10308722
> > > > http://www.google.com/
> > > > file:///net/xenbld.sfbay/disk3/smaybe/matrix/webrev/index.html
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Any more thoughts? I am somewhat suspicious that the avsforum
> > > > site may
> > > > be what is causing the problem since it has a flashing ad at the
> > > > top of
> > > > the page. However, it seems to me that if that causes unbounded
> > > > growth
> > > > in Firefox it is a serious problem with Firefox.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Stu
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 18:31 +0800, Brian Lu wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Can you tell me which websites have you accessed?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Brian
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Stuart Maybee wrote:et browser.sessionhistory.max_entries and
> > > > > browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers to 0 may help.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > I am currently running firefox 2.0.0.2 on a Nevada 48 Solaris
> > > > > > Build. I have noticed that Firefox keeps growing its RSS
> > > > > > seemingly without bound. I have also seen this with the
> > > > > > earlier1.x version of Firefox I was running previously. On
> > > > > > startup it is a fairly reasonable 72M or so RSS, yet just
> > > > > > while sitting idle overnight with 5 tabs at various web pages
> > > > > > it grew to 158M RSS. As I continue to use it, it keeps
> > > > > > growing. Over the course of a week or so It grew to over 900M
> > > > > > RSS and throws my poor 2Gig workstation into a paging fit
> > > > > > eventually. (causing enough of Xorg to get paged or swapped
> > > > > > out that my desktop effectively locks up for several minutes
> > > > > > at a time while the disk light flashes furiously).
> > > > > > Some google research indicated I should try setting
> > > > > > browser.cache.memory.enable in about:config to false. However
> > > > > > that does not seem to have halted the inexorable growth of
> > > > > > Firefox's RSS. Does anybody have any suggestions of something
> > > > > > else to try? or is this a FAQ/known problem that I missed the
> > > > > > simple fix for? Thanks for any help,
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Stu Maybee
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