Victor Churchill wrote:
> Desktop machine: Ubuntu 8.10, Firefox 3.0.11. Firefox regularly grows
> to >1GB in virtual memory size and close to 1GB physical memory at
> which point my (1GB) system starts thrashing and I usually need to
> kill it and restart. FF version from Synaptic is
> '3.0.11+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1' which is the up to date
> version. It's not a huge Firefox session: 3 windows, 10 tabs. Even
> after a fresh restart it shows 250MB resident, 750MB virtual.
>
For reference below is the top output from my firefox (3.0.11, Fedora
10). It has been running for quite a long time, and I've certainly not
seen it taking growing that excessively. I don't seem to have your
problems with the 3.0.11 included in Fedora 10. I run lots of tabs
during the day, only 2 were open when I took the top snapshot. I have
lots of extensions running installed and enabled:
Adblock Plus
NoScript
Web Developer
User Agent Switcher
XSL Results
Top output on my current firefox:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
18622 srowles 20 0 630m 405m 24m S 2.0 10.3 186:26.81 firefox
Having restarted and opened 3 windows with 12 tabs in total across the 3
windows I have the following:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
936 srowles 20 0 285m 97m 21m S 15.6 2.5 0:20.02 firefox
