<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>On the bottom of the browser where it says "Resident" click on that it gives you options on what you can do to lower your ram memory only for the browser. This does not effect your real ram memory in your computer. The options are Trigger CC, Trigger GC, Reduce Memory, Start Logging, Open Folder. When I clicked on Reduce Memory it helped 100 %. <br></span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Also when I had my mouse over the Resident word this phrase came up: Memory used by the process that is present in physical memory, it does not necessarily have to match the process manger.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Nancy<br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new
roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Anthony Hughes <ahughes@mozilla.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> nightly-testers@mozilla.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, June 1, 2012 7:01 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: Abnormally high RAM usage in latest Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:15.0) Gecko/15.0 Firefox/15.0a1 build<br> </font> </div> <br>
On 12-06-01 03:46 PM, Alex Jordan wrote:<br>> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Robert Johnston<<a ymailto="mailto:anaerin@gmail.com" href="mailto:anaerin@gmail.com">anaerin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>>> On 6/1/2012 3:09 PM, John Volikas wrote:<br>>>> On 2 June 2012 00:00, Robert Johnston<<a ymailto="mailto:anaerin@gmail.com" href="mailto:anaerin@gmail.com">anaerin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>>>>> On 5/30/2012 7:45 PM, Jeff Grossman wrote:<br>>>>><br>>>>> That could be valuable information to include in a bug report. Does<br>>>>> anybody<br>>>>> know if a bug has been opened for this issue?<br>>>>><br>>>>> Using about:memory, it seems that there are a HUGE number of JS<br>>>>> compartments<br>>>>> being opened for "<a href="https://plusone.google.com/u/" target="_blank">https://plusone.google.com/u/</a>...",
each one taking<br>>>>> 1.58MB.<br>>>>> With one or two, that's fine, but there's at least 1380 of these (23<br>>>>> pages<br>>>>> of 60 entries), making a memory footprint of 2.12GiB<br>>>>><br>>>>> This is with several tabs open, but only one open on Google Reader (Which<br>>>>> I'm thinking is the culprit). GCing doesn't help (and takes 1861.8ms<br>>>>> according to memchaser)<br>>>> This looks like a typical case of an extension holding references to<br>>>><br>>>> old pages, or a related issue. I'd suggest troubleshooting the<br>>>> extensions in your profile if you haven't done so already, and then<br>>>> once you find the offending extension, file a bug on BMO with STR,<br>>>> blocking bugs 700547 and 668871. If you've already ruled out<br>>>> extensions by reproducing in a clean profile
then disregard the above.<br>>><br>>> It still happens with a clean profile, so it seems this isn't extension<br>>> related.<br>> See if you can reproduce with another browser, like Chrome or Safari.<br>> It sounds to me like the Google +1 button just has a big memory<br>> footprint, and if that was the case, the issue would show up in<br>> another browser too.<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Nightly-testers mailing list<br>> <a ymailto="mailto:Nightly-testers@mozilla.org" href="mailto:Nightly-testers@mozilla.org">Nightly-testers@mozilla.org</a><br>> <a href="https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/nightly-testers" target="_blank">https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/nightly-testers</a><br><br>I would also suggest trying this in previous Firefox releases to <br>determine if this might be a regression.<br><br>-- <br>Anthony Hughes<br>Mozilla, Quality
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