[Bug 126012] Re: Firefox memory usage increases to point of no response

[Hilario J. Montoliu (hjmf)]

Thank you for your report and sorry for this late response.

I can confirm this behavior (though it doesn't crash for me). The
versions I've tested are Feisty's firefox 2.0.0.6+1-0ubuntu1 and
flashplugin-nonfree 9.0.48.0.0ubuntu1~7.04.1.

Here is the growing of memory usage as per top's output:

- Just after loading the web page:
  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND  
28276 hjmf      15   0  180m  38m  20m T   25  3.8   0:02.57 firefox-bin                        

- After 10 minutes (aprox.):
  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND  
28276 hjmf      16   0  243m 102m  25m S   13 10.2   1:00.66 firefox-bin 

- After 15 minutes (aprox.):
  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
28276 hjmf      15   0  522m 333m  25m S   17 33.0   1:55.73 firefox-bin   

- After 20 minutes (aprox.):
  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
28276 hjmf      15   0 1599m 828m  10m S   19 82.0   2:46.35 firefox-bin                        

- After 25 minutes (aprox.):
  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
28276 hjmf      16   0 2530m 831m  14m R   24 82.2   4:01.16 firefox-bin  

After that time there is no appreciable memory growth.

** Tags added: mt-eval mt-upstream

** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Mozilla Bugs
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Firefox memory usage increases to point of no response
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