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On 12-06-02 02:02 AM, Nancy Miller wrote:
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<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>
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<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>
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<div><span>Nancy<br>
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<hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b>
Anthony Hughes <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ahughes@mozilla.com"><ahughes@mozilla.com></a><br>
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<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>
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On 12-06-01 03:46 PM, Alex Jordan wrote:<br>
> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Robert Johnston<<a
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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
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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 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="about:memory">about:memory</a>, it seems that there are
a HUGE number of JS<br>
>>>> compartments<br>
>>>> being opened for "<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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>
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I would also suggest trying this in previous Firefox
releases to <br>
determine if this might be a regression.<br>
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Anthony Hughes<br>
Mozilla, Quality Engineer<br>
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I think it would be worth someone filing a bug to capture all this
information. I'm not sure many devs are watching this thread. It
would be much more visible to them if it were filed in Bugzilla.<br>
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Anthony Hughes
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