Re: firefox memory leak

On 2/20/06, Linas Zvirblis <0x0007@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

And what makes you think it is Firefox to blame? Do you regain the
memory after shutting down Firefox? Please check memory usage using
"top" or similar application and post the outcomes.

After last post, it started hanging.
I am not BLAMING but SUSPECTING firefox from bacports NOT from debian.
I think memory leak will not be regained after the application is
closed. Even after closing the application causing leak, memory can't
be regained as it hangs anf becomes unusable. I hope dev gurus here
will agree with me. further as I said no other application was
running.
Yes I have checked randomly FF uses CPU time even 90% and memory 40%.
Here is the timed free for this boot
After booting with konsole on
lvgandhi@lvgdell600m:~$ date
Mon Feb 20 15:38:01 UTC 2006
lvgandhi@lvgdell600m:~$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 515736 244780 270956 0 23552 127480
-/+ buffers/cache: 93748 421988
Swap: 506008 0 506008
After and only ff started
lvgandhi@lvgdell600m:~$ date;free
Mon Feb 20 15:38:40 UTC 2006
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 515736 278100 237636 0 23908 147584
-/+ buffers/cache: 106608 409128
Swap: 506008 0 506008
lvgandhi@lvgdell600m:~$ date;free
Mon Feb 20 15:43:54 UTC 2006
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 515736 363012 152724 0 24688 152284
-/+ buffers/cache: 186040 329696
Swap: 506008 0 506008
lvgandhi@lvgdell600m:~$ date;free
Mon Feb 20 15:54:09 UTC 2006
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 515736 509708 6028 0 22764 136664
-/+ buffers/cache: 350280 165456
Swap: 506008 0 506008
lvgandhi@lvgdell600m:~$ date;free
Mon Feb 20 16:02:48 UTC 2006
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 515736 509952 5784 0 20388 114292
-/+ buffers/cache: 375272 140464
Swap: 506008 0 506008
lvgandhi@lvgdell600m:~$


By the way, is it backported Firefox? If so, Debian project can take no
responsibility for it.

I am not talking about responsibilty. Many users here use firefox from
bacports as ff1.5 is vailable there.


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L.V.Gandhi
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linux user No.205042

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