** Branch linked: lp:~imz/epiphany-browser/ps-memstat-data
** Also affects: epiphany-browser
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1042075
Title:
the longer epiphany works the more memory it consumes (a memory leak?)
Status in Epiphany Browser:
New
Status in “epiphany-browser” package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
I'm concerned with how much memory is used in my Ubuntu 12.04 system
on Toshiba AC100 because there is little RAM.
Epiphany works quite fast on my system, but I have noticed that a lot
of memory was consumed after I left Gmail open in Epiphany over a
night.
Perhaps, there is a memory leak?
So, I made an observation over Epiphany's memory consumption (with a
simple script that printed how much memory the processes consume every
5 minutes -- https://gitorious.org/ps-memstat/ps-
memstat/blobs/epiphany/ac100-second-longer/ps-memstat or
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~imz/epiphany-browser/ps-memstat-
data/view/head:/ps-memstat -- it runs "ps"):
after Epiphany launched, I opened Gmail in it (the main page, with the
index of my messages) and didn't touch it for about a day.
The data of my observations are saved in https://gitorious.org/ps-
memstat/ps-memstat/blobs/epiphany/ac100-second-longer/ps-memstat-
epiphany.out . (They also should be visible in
https://code.launchpad.net/~imz/epiphany-browser/ps-memstat-data ,
but, unfortunately, the import of this non-HEAD branch into Launchpad
didn't work correctly --
https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/1000852 ).
In the beginning, the state was like this (it's the output of "ps
--sort -vsize -o comm,vsize,size,rss"):
Mon Jul 30 16:19:50 VLAT 2012
COMMAND VSZ SIZE RSS
epiphany-browse 21476 224 568
bash 6248 2496 3748
ps-memstat 3680 244 1092
ps 1872 632 668
head 1388 296 416
Mon Jul 30 16:24:50 VLAT 2012
COMMAND VSZ SIZE RSS
epiphany-browse 323568 243108 51116
bash 6248 2496 80
ps-memstat 3680 244 404
tail 2980 300 156
ps 1872 632 668
head 1388 296 416
In the end:
Wed Aug 1 14:00:27 VLAT 2012
COMMAND VSZ SIZE RSS
epiphany-browse 381232 300772 55976
bash 6248 2496 0
ps-memstat 3728 292 380
tail 2980 300 96
ps 1872 632 672
head 1388 296 416
So, the consumed virtual memory increased by 60Mb or so.
More info: disk cache is disabled in my Epiphany (not to cause load on
my flash harddrive). I'd also like to give up swap, but that's not
realistic yet to run programs without swap, because they tend to
consume more and more memory (like in the reported case of Epiphany).
I also have a feeling that the Midori process similarly grows
constantly in size if it is left with Gmail opened for a while (a
night).
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: epiphany-browser 3.4.1-0ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 3.0.27-1-ac100 armv7l
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu11
Architecture: armhf
Date: Mon Aug 27 16:52:19 2012
SourcePackage: epiphany-browser
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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