On 08/27/2014 10:33 AM, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
El 27/08/14 a las #4, Jim Sabatke escribió:
For quite some time, and across a couple versions of OpenSuse (13.1 currently) I've had terrible problems with Firefox. It displays the usual memory leak problems that programs often show, getting slower and slower until it becomes unresponsive until I kill it and restart.
While there might be indeed a memory leak. 99% of the time what users report as memory leak is a failure of understanding about how memory management works, what are the limitations, tradeoffs etc.. or a different problem altogether.
I should have mentioned that I've run a system monitor and have watched Thunderbird take up more and more memory until it stops responding. I realize people often don't understand memory management. Back in the old days, I wrote memory management software for embedded systems and even a floppy disk controller with memory management. I've written routines that track allocation and reported problem routines. I had to really jump through hoops to get Windows to behave well in those days. The Firefox version supplied with later Suse versions, probably a plug-in, is really causing problems. I'm really not up on modern web technologies, but I don't think memory management has changed all that much. I do know that Java is supposedly graceful in it's memory management, but as another respondent suggested, it could be Javascript, and I know nothing about that. Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org