Christopher Myers composed on 2015-08-13 16:55 (UTC-0500):
Out of curiosity, is there any way to tell why Firefox is eating up tons of memory,
about:memory in its urlbar tells some things
when it's only been running for a few hours, and just has a couple of tabs open? I'm using FF39 on oS 13.1.
top - 16:52:34 up 9:18, 3 users, load average: 1.22, 0.70, 0.54 Tasks: 255 total, 1 running, 254 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 6.7 us, 8.8 sy, 0.0 ni, 84.5 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st KiB Mem: 7907372 total, 6505032 used, 1402340 free, 60992 buffers KiB Swap: 2097148 total, 200956 used, 1896192 free, 691916 cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2422 cmyers 20 0 3052232 1.434g 44108 S 9.645 19.01 82:41.46 firefox
Do you have Flash installed? Are pages/tabs/windows using Flash? How many extensions are installed? Are you using a non-default theme? How many pages/tabs/windows are open? Are your open pages heavyweights? (large HTML plus large CSS; pages can exceed 1M as download, many times that in RAM consumption to populate the DOM and render) I'm using 38.1.1ESR, too many open tabs to count, few extensions (only 3 non-bundled), only one plugin (OpenH264), far less RAM than you (9.8% of 4G physical), but AFAIK, no pages with Flash or PDF content. AFAICT, it will lay claim to as much as it can, and if you don't offer it much, it won't use so much. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Memory_Leak -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org