Re: Memory leak
On Sunday, February 13, 2022 02:58:46 PM Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> 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.
Just to make sure you spotted it, I mistakenly mentioned files but they are
actually processes (as tomas pointed out). Still, I think you have the
idea...n
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