Myk Melez wrote: > David Ford wrote: >> Even with tuning, FF is a dastard piggy. I've tested things with FF. >> Start it with no history, no recovered session. Load up digg.com and do >> nothing. Just let it sit there. It will sit there and slowly grow and >> grow and grow. The caching isn't the problem, that's tunable. The >> problem is the memory leaks -- all the valgrind reports turned into moz >> teams (and ignored). >> > I tried this over the weekend, creating a fresh profile for Firefox, > starting it up, loading digg.com into it, and then letting it sit for a > day. Memory consumption stayed constant. > > I'm using the latest nightly version of Firefox 2.0 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; > U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4pre) Gecko/20070513 BonEcho/2.0.0.4pre) > on Ubuntu Linux 6.10. > > -myk > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenMoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > >
I also tried doing this, but I got mixed results. Firefox 2.0.0.2, minus all the extensions and themes, would have consistent memory use sometimes, but not always. I did notice, however, that I could only get the memory to start "leaking" when using certain sites, digg being the primary one. The rate of the leak was quite substantial, and I imagine that the site's scripting or embedded flash/media content may be at least partially responsible. I had honestly never used digg before this test, and all of the other sites I use (like google, slashdot, wikipedia, and many others) have never caused me problems when leaving them open for days. However, this discussion is entirely off-topic at this point. The mainstream x86 FF release is not in any way a suitable candidate for the openmoko. The neo uses a different architecture. If a derivation or port of FF/Mozilla code is used on the neo, then an existing memory leak is of little concern - it's open source, submit a patch. ~Bradley _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community