Re: Is Firefox/Iceweasel leaking?
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Girish Kulkarni <girish@athene.org.in> writes:
> On Fri, 07 May 2010 19:58:26 +0200 Merciadri Luca wrote:
>> I noticed on many computers with Debian, whatever the kernel
>> (2.6.xx, xx >= 26), that, once ``too much'' tabs have been opened,
>> Firefox/Iceweasel becomes sluggish, slower and slower, and often
>> stalls after some time. I also noticed that, when becoming more and
>> more sluggish, it takes more and more RAM, even when all the pages
>> are completely loaded. Why? Am I the only person who's experiencing
>> this? Is there an objective explanation to this?
>
> I'd had similar problem with Iceweasel on Lenny when my browser cache
> limit was set to a large value. But things are okay after bringing it
> down (to 20MB). You might want to try that.
I modified the value from 50 to 10 MB. I hope it will do the trick.
> Large cache slows Iceweasel down because it uses these large databases
> of stored history to suggest addresses in each tab's address bar. I
> also had a Zotero database, which used to worsen things.
Indeed; everything has a price.
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Merciadri Luca
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