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=-105.11988067626 >> 95&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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/attachments/20070419/b2528d6b/attachment.html>
