Re: firefox memory leak

[L.V.Gandhi <lvgandhi@gmail.com>]

On 2/21/06, Linas Zvirblis <0x0007@gmail.com> wrote:

> Please post output of "top -b -n 1" after you start loosing memory.

When firefox screen went blank
output as below

lvgandhi@lvgdell600m:~$ top -b -n 1
top - 06:26:15 up 12 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.63, 0.97, 0.62
Tasks:  93 total,   3 running,  90 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 15.6% us,  3.7% sy,  0.4% ni, 33.3% id, 45.7% wa,  1.2% hi,  0.1% si
Mem:    515736k total,   509580k used,     6156k free,   101116k buffers
Swap:   506008k total,       60k used,   505948k free,   111220k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 6449 lvgandhi  25   0  125m  51m  20m R 81.2 10.3   0:41.34 firefox-bin
 5056 root      15   0 96388  46m 4104 S 11.9  9.3   0:26.48 Xorg
 5234 lvgandhi  15   0 29788  15m  12m S  4.0  3.0   0:07.60 kded
 3659 hal       16   0  7656 6160 1664 S  2.0  1.2   0:01.01 hald
    1 root      16   0  1588  516  448 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.55 init
    2 root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
    3 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 events/0
    4 root      12  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 khelper

Any comments.

> > I am not talking about responsibilty. Many users here use firefox from
> > bacports as ff1.5 is vailable there.
>
> It is also available in Debian Unstable. You might want to try it, if
> possible.

I though instead of having mixed system, it is better to have
backports. apt-get upgrade for sarge with backports will be better
than for mixed system. I may be corrected and explained if I am wrong.


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