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 > > >
