[xubuntu-users] Firefox using memory while session isdisconnected/locked

[Juan De Mola]

Hi.

Tried to reproduce the behavior without success. I have 4GB.

El 21/8/20 a las 9:59 a. m., Václav Haisman escribió:
> Hi.
>
> Recently, like last month, I have been observing odd behaviour of
> Firefox when I disconnect from / lock the session.
>
> When I return home after work, I log back in and the root Firefox
> process uses, say 9 GiB of RAM. The Firefox windows are unresponsive.
> When I look at process list in top, I can that the main Firefox process
> is slowly returning memory. Once it is finished, around 1 GiB RSS, all
> of the Firefox windows start responding again.
>
> There is no swapping involved. I have 64 GiB of RAM.
>
> It appears to be leaking memory when the session is locked/disconnected
> and it GCs it when I return and log back in.
>
> This is with 20.04.1. I am just wondering if anyone else is seeing the
> same symptoms.
>
>
>
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