Bug #2307
closed
Firefox has memory leak
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Description
I had Firefox (the prepackaged one that calls itself Aurora) open for two days or so. If I use it after it's been up for several hours, it gets slow, and I have to kill and restart it. I forgot to do this, so during Hammer maintenance, the kernel killed X, resulting in a strange display. I had to shell in from another box and kill kdm, then as processes still using the dead X remained, I had to reboot. Firefox version is 6.0.2; kernel version is v3.1.0.114.g7fba7-DEVELOPMENT. I had a few Google Docs and Google Maps open in it. I don't see Konqueror taking over the memory like this.
Updated by phma almost 13 years ago
It happened again last night, without Firefox. /var/log/messages has lines like this:
Feb 17 06:14:51 darner kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed alloc=2
Feb 17 06:14:51 darner kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed alloc=5
Feb 17 06:14:51 darner kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed alloc=4
Feb 17 06:14:51 darner kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed alloc=2
Feb 17 06:15:22 darner kernel: Warning: system low on memory+swap!
Feb 17 06:15:46 darner last message repeated 7 times
Feb 17 06:18:12 darner last message repeated 31 times
Feb 17 06:18:14 darner kernel: Warning: system low on memory+swap!
Feb 17 06:18:14 darner kernel: pid 1066 (Xorg), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space
Feb 17 06:18:21 darner kdm1063: X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly
Feb 17 06:19:15 darner kdm1063: X server startup timeout, terminating
Feb 17 06:19:34 darner kdm1063: X server for display :0 cannot be started, session disabled
Updated by phma over 12 years ago
Looks like the program responsible for eating memory and causing X to crash is not Firefox, but the XFCE4 Terminal.I saw it taking a gig of memory with only two tabs.
Updated by dragonflybsd1 over 12 years ago
Do you want this ticket closed?
Both issues (mem leak in firefox and mem leak in xfce4 terminal) are walking the line between dragonfly issue and developer-of-package issue.
Updated by phma over 12 years ago
I'm pretty sure by now that the Firefox taking up more memory is the result of opening Google Docs or exploring Google Maps. The XFCE terminal, though, definitely has a bug, and I haven't seen that bug on my Linux laptop, which has XFCE. Konsole also has a bug, which results sometimes in every Konsole window hanging when one of them runs less, but that seems to be a known bug in Konsole. I'm going to wait until the next release of binary packages and see if those bugs are still there.
Updated by tuxillo almost 3 years ago
- Status changed from New to Closed
Please open an issue in github.com/dragonflybsd/dports if this is still an issue.