[Oops, forgot to cc desktop discuss] Stuart,
I would be useful to see the output of xrestop when this is happening so we can see where pixmaps, etc. are. You can get xrestop by building SFExrestop.spec, or from freedesktop.org Darren. Stuart Maybee wrote: > 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 >>>>>>> This message posted from opensolaris.org >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> desktop-discuss mailing list >>>>>>> desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> desktop-discuss mailing list >>>>> desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> desktop-discuss mailing list >>>> desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >>> -------- >>> Ginn Chen >>> Software Engineer, Browser Team >>> Sun Microsystems, Inc. >>> Phone: x82869 / +86-10-62673869 >>> Fax: +86-10-62780969 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
