Re: Memory leak

From	"Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Memory leak
Date	2022-02-12 00:20 +0100
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On Friday 11 February 2022 11:06:01 am Celejar wrote:
> I seem to have a serious memory leak on my system (Lenovo W550s) - the
> memory usage seems to slowly but more or less steadily keep increasing.
> 
> This is a more or less normal (I think) desktop installation of Sid,
> running Xfce4. Typical applications used are Firefox (currently with
> just one extension: uBlock Origin), LibreOffice Writer, Sylpheed, Xfce4
> Terminal, and Liferea, all from the official repos.

I have noticed similar behavior here,  and the culprit seems to be firefox.  If I ignore it things get sluggish, and then the machine starts to thrash,  until the only recourse is the power switch.  If I notice it in time,  close firefox and restart it,  the memory used after I do that is significantly less than it was before.

Somewhere in their help or documentation they even say that you shouldn't leave it running for extended periods of time.

I wish they'd fix it!

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Memory leak Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-02-11 17:10 +0100
  Re: Memory leak Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2022-02-11 18:00 +0100
    Re: Memory leak Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-02-11 18:10 +0100
      Re: Memory leak Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2022-02-11 19:50 +0100
        Re: Memory leak Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-02-11 21:10 +0100
          Re: Memory leak Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2022-02-11 23:40 +0100
        Re: Memory leak piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-02-11 21:20 +0100
      Re: Memory leak Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-02-11 20:50 +0100
  Re: Memory leak Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2022-02-11 19:50 +0100
    Re: Memory leak Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2022-02-11 20:20 +0100
      Re: Memory leak David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-02-13 18:10 +0100
    Re: Memory leak Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-02-11 20:50 +0100
      Re: Memory leak Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2022-02-12 18:50 +0100
        Re: Memory leak Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-02-14 22:50 +0100
  Re: Memory leak "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2022-02-12 00:20 +0100
    Re: Memory leak piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-02-12 09:10 +0100
      Re: Memory leak Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2022-02-12 13:50 +0100
        Re: Memory leak piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-02-14 02:30 +0100
    Re: Memory leak Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2022-02-12 11:20 +0100
      Re: Memory leak rhkramer@gmail.com - 2022-02-12 15:30 +0100
        Re: Memory leak Felmon Davis <moelmoel2714@gmail.com> - 2022-02-12 23:50 +0100
        Re: Memory leak <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-02-13 07:30 +0100
          Re: Memory leak rhkramer@gmail.com - 2022-02-13 16:10 +0100
            Re: Memory leak <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-02-13 16:20 +0100
            Re: Memory leak "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2022-02-13 17:10 +0100
        Re: Memory leak "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2022-02-13 21:00 +0100
          Re: Memory leak rhkramer@gmail.com - 2022-02-14 02:20 +0100
      Re: Memory leak Felmon Davis <moelmoel2714@gmail.com> - 2022-02-12 23:50 +0100
        Re: Memory leak <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-02-13 07:40 +0100
          Re: Memory leak Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2022-02-13 09:10 +0100
            Re: Memory leak Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2022-02-13 17:10 +0100

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