Firefox memory leak with large html files with tag errors
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Mozilla Firefox |
Confirmed
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Unknown
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firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: firefox-3.0
mv .mozilla .mozilla-backup # insure it's a vanilla firefox config on intrepid
Go to this url
http://
Run top (sort by memory if you wish with M). Watch it rocket to:
Mem: 2070924k total, 1671048k used, 399876k free, 20800k buffers
Swap: 2586424k total, 156176k used, 2430248k free, 278644k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
3820 bill 20 0 1122m 1.0g 21m S 3 51.0 2:22.96 firefox
The page has just 20-30 lines of normal looking HTML, and a large (10-20 screens) page of text inside a <pre>.
My system is currently patched and:
lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10
And firefox:
firefox:
Installed: 3.0.4+nobinonly
Candidate: 3.0.4+nobinonly
Version table:
*** 3.0.4+nobinonly
500 http://
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
3.
500 http://
I'd expect a page with 10 screens of text to take alot less than 1GB of ram.
Changed in firefox: | |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in firefox: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
Changed in firefox: | |
status: | Confirmed → Unknown |
Changed in firefox: | |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in firefox: | |
importance: | Medium → Unknown |
I forgot to mention the memory use does flatten at 1.2GB.