Still an issue with FF ESR 52.9.0 and 8GB of RAM on Ubuntu 18.04. Grows like cancer from a few hundred MB at startup to 2GB+, gets laggy above 1.5GB, gets unusable at 2GB. Not killing the entire system anymore, but I can tell memory usage from zippyness of loading pages and reaction time of especially JS-heavy sites.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/730311 Title: firefox takes enormous amounts of RAM and swap space, growing until system crashes Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Binary package hint: firefox On my T400 with 2GB of RAM / 7GB of swap, the current beta12 of firefox takes easily up to 1 GB of RAM and swap combined; I have also observed amounts of up to 1GB RAM _AND_ 4GB of Swap yesterday. The system (of course) gets incredibly laggy because of somewhat silly I/O sizes, which creates full HDD load at the rate of less than 1 MB/s of throughput. A system load of 20/15/10 (2 cores) rapidly occurs. Moreover, mouse movement gets choppy and mouse acceleration stops working, keyboard inputs are barely accepted. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: firefox 4.0~b12+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-5.32-generic 2.6.38-rc6 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-5-generic x86_64 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Mar 6 23:02:10 2011 ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/firefox-4.0b12/firefox-bin FirefoxPackages: firefox 4.0~b12+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 flashplugin-installer N/A adobe-flashplugin N/A icedtea-plugin 1.0~20110122-0ubuntu1 LocalLibraries: /home/bzzz/.mozilla/firefox/oufydzvl.default/extensions/{FFA36170-80B1-4535-B0E3-A4569E497DD0}/platform/Linux_x86_64-gcc3/components/mgMouseService_64.so ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: firefox UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-02-11 (23 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/730311/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
