Re: High memory usage with www/firefox and www/seamonkey on amd64

[Jose Luis Rodriguez Garcia <joseyluis%gmail.com@localhost>]

>>
>> ¿Is this the usual behavior? A friend of mine with Linux/amd64 says it
>> takes to him 300-500 Mbytes of memory.
>
>displaying the same tabs ?

Diferent tabs. If I remember well it was about 70 tabs.

>
>In fact I suspect firefox may have a memory leak somewhere ...
>Either that, or it's using memory for cache, and does a bad job
>at scaling i

Do you speak about specific leak of firefox on NetBSD or a leak on all
platforms?

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 12:07 AM, Manuel Bouyer 
<bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 01:59:49AM +0100, Jose Luis Rodriguez Garcia wrote:
>> I am having high usage of memory with firefox and seamonkey from a
>> year ago (or more), with different PKG2013QX(s) (may be also
>> pkgsr2012QX) using NetBSD 6.1 on amd64.
>>
>> The memory used (rss column) uses to be more of 2G with +50 tabs
>
> On i386 I can see up to 1Gb, with probably less tabs than you gave.
>
>>
>> ¿Is this the usual behavior? A friend of mine with Linux/amd64 says it
>> takes to him 300-500 Mbytes of memory.
>
> displaying the same tabs ?
>
> In fact I suspect firefox may have a memory leak somewhere ...
> Either that, or it's using memory for cache, and does a bad job
> at scaling it.
>
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> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
>      NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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