On Saturday, 16 May 2020 13:32:32 BST Dale wrote: > Dale wrote: > > I guess the bug was caught and fixed. Thanks to all that read and > > Michael for trying to help. > > > > Dale > > > > :-) :-) > > I have some more info and some doesn't make much sense. I thought this > might be fixed but guess not. While it is somewhat slower to take up a > lot of memory after a recent plasma update, it does still get there. It > takes a day or so now where before it was just a few hours. Logging out > and back in does reset it to normal tho. > > One thing that seems to stand out, Firefox and one profile in > particular. I have two profiles that I use a lot nowadays. One is for > ebay, Amazon, tracking shipments etc etc. The other is where I do > youtube and other video type sites. It has a video download helper > add-on installed but the rest is mostly the same. When I have the first > profile open, it is slow to consume memory. When I open the one I use > for videos, it starts building up faster. While I can logout and back > in daily, it still gets to around 5% or so. I usually start planning to > logout and back in when it hits 4% or so. It's at 5 by the time I get > everything to where I can. Thing is, closing Firefox doesn't seem to > have any effect on it. It slows down some but doesn't get back to > normal memory usage. I can't quite figure out how Firefox can have a > effect on it tho. I realize it is running within the GUI and all but > still, it doesn't make much sense. > > I do a emerge -e system and world the other day in my chroot. Once > done, I did a complete re-emerge on my running system. All was done > with the same gcc, 9.3. I'm not sure it did any good but at least it > rules out some sort of mismatch with different packages running with > different gcc versions. It also rules out and sort of broken linkages > and other mismatches as well. I've also updated kernels and video > drivers with no change. I also disabled my background slideshow to see > if it was causing this, no change. When I was doing my emerge system > and world, I had Firefox and at times Seamonkey closed and it stayed > within reason at least. It would get up to around 2% but seemed to stay > there. I'm not sure what to look for or even for sure what is exactly > the trigger for this problem. It seems Firefox affects it but not sure > why that is exactly. > > If anyone has ideas, I'm open to them. I can't think of anything else > to try at the moment. > > Dale > > :-) :-)
Just an idea: Log out/in, check memory usage is normal. If not log out, restart /etc/ init.d/xdm and login again. Start FF without any addons. Use a new profile if necessary. Check memory usage. If after a while under normal use you still have reasonable levels of memory usage, then you can start adding one add-on at a time and see where that gets you. You may also want to give youtube-dl a spin. I know, it's not a FF-GUI video download tool, but it works without getting in the way or eating up RAM unnecessarily.
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