Victor Churchill wrote: > Desktop machine: Ubuntu 8.10, Firefox 3.0.11. Firefox regularly grows > to >1GB in virtual memory size and close to 1GB physical memory at > which point my (1GB) system starts thrashing and I usually need to > kill it and restart. FF version from Synaptic is > '3.0.11+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1' which is the up to date > version. It's not a huge Firefox session: 3 windows, 10 tabs. Even > after a fresh restart it shows 250MB resident, 750MB virtual. > For reference below is the top output from my firefox (3.0.11, Fedora 10). It has been running for quite a long time, and I've certainly not seen it taking growing that excessively. I don't seem to have your problems with the 3.0.11 included in Fedora 10. I run lots of tabs during the day, only 2 were open when I took the top snapshot. I have lots of extensions running installed and enabled:
Adblock Plus NoScript Web Developer User Agent Switcher XSL Results Top output on my current firefox: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 18622 srowles 20 0 630m 405m 24m S 2.0 10.3 186:26.81 firefox Having restarted and opened 3 windows with 12 tabs in total across the 3 windows I have the following: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 936 srowles 20 0 285m 97m 21m S 15.6 2.5 0:20.02 firefox -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
