[plug] Tracking and Fixing Memory Leaks

[Timothy White]

Gavin Chester wrote:
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> Back to your original topic with my variations:  You originally reported
> Firefox being a memory hog.  I said I saw the same with Galeon - both
> browsers built from/on the Mozilla engine.  At the time I blamed having
> lots of windows and tabs open for the problem on my machine.
> 
> However, I've since seen it under different conditions.  The other day I
> had just one Galeon window of five tabs open.  I let it sit there all
> day (not viewing the pages) and by the end of the day Galeon alone was
> gobbling up 17% of my 1Gb of memory and 90% of CPU!!!
> 
> Tim: is this anything like the memory leaks you were originally trying
> to track?

Very much like it. I have the problem with just one window and a few
tabs. Multiple windows shouldn't make the problem much worse as they
should still be the same instance and IIRC each window is similar to
another tab in terms of memory and CPU usage.

> 
> Group: anyone seen anything like this and know how I can handle it??
> 
> BTW: I'm not using the latest version of Galeon (assuming the advice
> would be to upgrade ;-) ), and I have a dual processor motherboard with
> only one CPU fitted, so maybe it doesn't use one CPU that well? 
I'm using a single processor board with Debian Testing running 1.0-1 of
firefox. As a test I got the 0.9 binary from the official site and ran
it on a P2 500, 64Mb of RAM and it didn't seem to HOG the memory,
probably because it didn't have much memory to HOG and the computer was
unresponsive in general[1]

Tim

[1] Lines for self - "I must not do normal work on a
gateway/firewall/router" ;) It gets kinda slow

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