Re: firefox memory leak
L.V.Gandhi <lvgandhi@gmail.com> said on Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:33:01 +0000:
> I am running sarge with backports using firefox. I found many times
> system hanging. I am now only running firefox and konsole.
> In the last 30 mins, free gives the following results at various
> points of time sequentially as below. first one when I started
> machine.
> lvgandhi@lvgdell600m:~$ free
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 515736 315068 200668 0 14004 151484
> -/+ buffers/cache: 149580 366156
> Swap: 506008 0 506008
...
> lvgandhi@lvgdell600m:~$ free
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 515736 509720 6016 0 2932 38076
> -/+ buffers/cache: 468712 47024
> Swap: 506008 397072 108936
Yep, firefox is a terribly written peice of crap. But good luck
anyone being able to fix the horribly broken code it is based on (or
caring that much -- mozilla developers seem to assume that everyone
just loves upgrading every 6 months).
I think I might have just migrated to opera. Not Free, but adequate.
A browser doesn't /need/ to lose track of 500MB in several days
operation to be any good.
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