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Re: firefox memory leak



On 2/20/06, Linas Zvirblis <0x0007@gmail.com> wrote:

> And what makes you think it is Firefox to blame? Do you regain the
> memory after shutting down Firefox? Please check memory usage using
> "top" or similar application and post the outcomes.

After last post, it started hanging.
I am not BLAMING but SUSPECTING firefox from bacports NOT from debian.
I think memory leak will not be regained after the application is
closed. Even after closing the application causing leak, memory can't
be regained as it hangs anf becomes unusable. I hope dev gurus here
will agree with me. further as I said no other application was
running.
Yes I have checked randomly FF uses CPU time even 90% and memory 40%.
Here is the timed free for this boot
After booting with konsole on
lvgandhi@lvgdell600m:~$ date
Mon Feb 20 15:38:01 UTC 2006
lvgandhi@lvgdell600m:~$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        515736     244780     270956          0      23552     127480
-/+ buffers/cache:      93748     421988
Swap:       506008          0     506008
After and only ff started
lvgandhi@lvgdell600m:~$ date;free
Mon Feb 20 15:38:40 UTC 2006
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        515736     278100     237636          0      23908     147584
-/+ buffers/cache:     106608     409128
Swap:       506008          0     506008
lvgandhi@lvgdell600m:~$ date;free
Mon Feb 20 15:43:54 UTC 2006
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        515736     363012     152724          0      24688     152284
-/+ buffers/cache:     186040     329696
Swap:       506008          0     506008
lvgandhi@lvgdell600m:~$ date;free
Mon Feb 20 15:54:09 UTC 2006
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        515736     509708       6028          0      22764     136664
-/+ buffers/cache:     350280     165456
Swap:       506008          0     506008
lvgandhi@lvgdell600m:~$ date;free
Mon Feb 20 16:02:48 UTC 2006
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        515736     509952       5784          0      20388     114292
-/+ buffers/cache:     375272     140464
Swap:       506008          0     506008
lvgandhi@lvgdell600m:~$


> By the way, is it backported Firefox? If so, Debian project can take no
> responsibility for it.

I am not talking about responsibilty. Many users here use firefox from
bacports as ff1.5 is vailable there.


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L.V.Gandhi
http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/
linux user No.205042

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