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Re: Memory leak

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On 2022-02-11, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. <roy@rtellason.com> wrote:
> 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!
>
>

I don't think they're headed in the direction of a fix.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-much-memory-or-cpu-resources

 Firefox may use more system resources if it's left open for long periods
 of time. A workaround for this is to periodically restart Firefox. You
 can configure Firefox to save your tabs and windows so that when you
 start it again, you can start where you left off. 

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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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