On 8/14/23 15:50, Ruiyang Peng wrote:
I was using Firefox and suddenly there was something wrong with it: I can't switch the tabs.
I found that Firefox has taken over 2GB of memory, while I've just opened three tabs (A circuit
simulator, a local file, and a music website and none of it could take such memory)!
I rebooted, but the problem is still there. It was okay at the beginning , but when I
was trying to switch the tabs, the monitor showed that the memory suddenly grew from 269MB
to 1.8GB.
(versions: Mozilla Firefox 116.0.2, Latest Arch Linux 6.4.10 on x86-64 laptop)
Omg, while I was writing this post I didn't close Firefox and now it takes 7.4GB of memory, and
STILL GROWING!! Now 11.1GB
Of course there's a memory leak.
FWIW I don't see that happening using Firefox 116.0.2 with Arch Linux 6.4.10 also on a x86-64 laptop. Having 8 firefox tabs open free reports a total used memory of 2.5GB. ps -ef reports 34 firefox processes. How do you see that firefox uses al that memory ? Regards ~Z