<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Juan Becerra <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jbecerra@mozilla.com">jbecerra@mozilla.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div><br>Hi all,<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
You could also monitor the garbage collection and cycle collection durations by going to the preferences in about:config, toggling the preference javascript.options.mem.log to true, and opening the Error Console (Messages tab), and noticing the GC total and CC durations. Anything in the order of thousands might be an indication of this problem.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Now that we have the MemChaser extension available, you will be able to directly see the memory and gc/cc activities in the add-on bar of Firefox. No need to run all those complicated steps anymore.<br>
<br>More information you can find on my blog:<br><a href="http://www.hskupin.info/2012/02/10/memchaser-an-extension-to-track-firefoxs-memory-activities/">http://www.hskupin.info/2012/02/10/memchaser-an-extension-to-track-firefoxs-memory-activities/</a><br>
</div></div><br>Install the extension from AMO - it's restartless so you don't even have to restart Firefox!<br><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/memchaser/">https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/memchaser/</a><br clear="all">
<br>Cheers,<br><br>-- <br>Henrik Skupin<br>QA Engineer<br>Mozilla Corporation<br>