Firefox 1.5 memory usage

KdjaCL

Has hit 300k on occasion anyone else finding it sucking up all their ram?

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kdjac

Julesie

Cant say i have, but thats way to high for it to be functioning normally. How many tabs did you have open? Was it still responding?

Lush

KdjaC wrote:

Has hit 300k on occasion anyone else finding it sucking up all their ram?

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kdjac

Yep, but I did have loads of tabs open at the time.

Stephen

Its only using 62MB at the moment for me ... ?

Capt'n Midnight

300K ? - you mean 376MB

you've got 3433MB between your swap file and ram so it's only using about 10% of available space - maybe no garbage collection ?

also you've got 80MB used by java

strange but at a guess you've probably got a gig of ram in that box so - my FF has just hit 96MB - 30mins and only on boards - but I've loads of physical memory free so not an issue.

dawballz

I've seen my firefox use that much too, but i did have a lot of tabs open.

greglo23

with 35 tabs open mine was using 90 megs. no problem here !!!

Drapper

85mb here 3 tabs open

zAbbo

on OSX it rarely uses more than 55mb, while on windows, it will rarely function without more.

Capt'n Midnight

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prmc_str_masc.asp

If anyone really wants they can add this line to BOOT.INI to limit Xp to using 64MB ram and see how much FF uses then,
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\Windows="Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /MAXMEM=64

or use /burnmemory=number to burn off the top part of memory

only if you have tonnes of time and know how to recover from a corrupt boot.ini

OSiriS

I have always found memory usage with firefox to be a big problem, but by the sounds of it the problem has gotten worse in more recent versions. It has nothing to do with the number of tabs you have open. Even graphically intensive pages don;t tend to be more than a few megs in size, and those aren't very common. Your typical webpage might be 50-100k. It would appear that firefox has a problem of discarding information from memory that isn't needed anymore.

azezil

I've noticed from time to time, since installing 1.5 even after i've closed the browser, its still running in memory, only discovered it yesterday when i noticed my machine slow down, checked task manager and it way running 7 times.

should have stuck to the older version

Khannie

My own installed version (edit: on linux) is running at 156MB. Pretty hefty for one tab open (though I'm sure it's a relatively memory intensive tab).

Hobbes

You either have funky extensions or you accessed a site that didn't clean up properly (Flash tends to do this). Install NoScript tends to stop most of the messing.

jor el

I've noticed for a long time now that Firefox tends to get slow and eventually crash when saving items from web pages. After multiple saves (>100 maybe) it gets really slow and will be using loads of memory (I've seen up to nearly 400MB like KdjaC). It usually just freezes and needs to be killed, or sometimes it crashes and I get the crash report window coming up.

I have quite a few extensions installed so maybe it's one of those.

art

I'm running FireFox on Win2000 sp4 here, just did a quick test. Firefox has been on for about 30mins now and with one tab is using 35MB memory. I then opened five new tabs but all just pointed at Google, memory stayed almost identical at around 35MB so I then went to some more java-y and ad loaded sites, Unison, Yahoo, NewNow etc in each tab and the load slowly crawled up to 42MBs.

All in all that's not bad, or quite good really. I'll look again later on an XP machine.

How are people working out the RAM load by the way, are people (re the 300MB) looking at FireFox in isolation or at the OS in general when FireFox is in use?

CyberGhost

I'm using 250 right now, but I have like 50 extensions installed, so I guess that's normal.