Re: Memory leak
On Saturday 12 February 2022 09:21:00 am rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> The version of Firefox used in Jessie (and presumably later versions) creates
> (typically mutlitple) files named "Web Content". I don't know how Firefox
> decides what to put in each of those (e.g., content from how many tabs), but
> ...
>
> I keep top running in a VT and check it every once in a while, and when too
> much memory is used, I kill one or more of those files, usually the largest
> first.
>
> My tabs remain as tabs (with the associated URL), but the content is gone, but
> I can get it back by reloading the tab.
Interesting! I see a few of files named "web" in the process table, probably a slight version difference there. I'll have to keep that in mind next time things reach that point. Right now each one is using 2-3% of CPU and a nontrivial amount of space.
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