firefox really leaning on memory-3.7.0-0

Just noticed that ff is really pulling on memory and I only have 4 tabs open.

ventrical said: Just noticed that ff is really pulling on memory and I only have 4 tabs open.

Thats really starving mode .

is that behavior appearing abruptly or from opening on wards ?

raja.genupula said: Thats really starving mode .

is that behavior appearing abruptly or from opening on wards ?

This is from a fresh install using the daily .iso of raring. That PC had been running for a few hours. I then just decided to download htop. ff was running for several hours. However, after I reported it, it began to slowly back-off and stabalize.

If I were not experimenting with htop I would not have noticed.

From a cold boot with tabs restored:

system monitor

So then it jumps to 12.8 without doing any input at all.

Then I scroll up in htop and have more instances of ff eating away at memory..

23instances of FF X 16.4MB using 3.5.0-17 kernel.

Definitely appears to be ff problem.

You're not showing anything out of the ordinary The "16.4" is % not MB Each PID is not another instance & doesn't represent any add. mem used or reserved

According to conky FF is using ~12% memory.

Sheesh nvidia temp not worky in raring.

mc4man said: You're not showing anything out of the ordinary

The "16.4" is % not MB Each PID is not another instance & doesn't represent any add. mem used or reserved

Thanks mc4man.

Raring % memory seems to vary from boot to boot. It was 30% then I rebooted now it is 20%. Not doing much except 4 tabs open and making this message. Seems to keep on at 20% no matter whether it is doing much or not.

jerrylamos said: Raring % memory seems to vary from boot to boot. It was 30% then I rebooted now it is 20%. Not doing much except 4 tabs open and making this message. Seems to keep on at 20% no matter whether it is doing much or not.

46 - 58 % here now. I have 30 tabs open on this one machine (Intel Dual Core 2.66GHz) but it did not do this a week ago. Actually , with all these tabs, it would just idle between 0 and 7 %.

I'm keeping an eye on it.

Linux dale-desktop 3.7.0-030700rc4-generic #201211041435 SMP Sun Nov 4 19:43:27 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux dale@dale-desktop:~$

you seems to dream a little :confused:

30 tabs opened with, i suppose a bunch of refreshing ads/video/javascript enabled, ...

you cant get 0% or even 7 % with all that stuff refreshing in a loop :(

simply unplug or deactivate the network, and you'll see the difference :P

On my other machine 151MB with only 3 tabs opened. ff is really hogging the memory, not usual.

dino99 said: you seems to dream a little :confused:

30 tabs opened with, i suppose a bunch of refreshing ads/video/javascript enabled, ...

you cant get 0% or even 7 % with all that stuff refreshing in a loop :(

simply unplug or deactivate the network, and you'll see the difference :P

Not dreaming... an error on my part. Tabs were (opened) but not active in those cases.