Ian Davey wrote:
>
> Chris Hofmann wrote:
>
> > The mozilla equivalent of what Netscape and a few other browser
[snip]
> > mozilla client pick one of these babies up and give it a spin.
>
> I've been using it all day very successfully, but have just hit a very
> reproduceable (for me at least) and rather deadly memory leak. It effects
> both the candidate build and the trunk.
>
> This is on our intranet, picking up pages from an IIS server using
> Mozilla on NT4 (latest service pack). I'm hitting a page that causes the
> progress bar to remain at the "Connecting to..." stage and seemingly
> remain there. All is fine if I leave it there, the memory usage
> fluctuates up and down by a few kilobytes as normal. However, if I
> switch to the news client and start using that, while the progress bar
> throbber is still waiting for a connection to the site, then memory
> usage in NT's task manager starts growing at a rate of about 200KB/s.
> Until Mozilla becomes unresponsive, followed by NT itself, and it has to
> be killed using the task manager.
>
> I can't say how easily this can be reproduced by anyone else without a
> "hung" page to test against, but with this intranet example I tested it
> around eight times and could reproduce it each time. The IIS server may
> have been having problems, as I managed to get connection refused a few
> times as well, but when it goes into that "Connecting to..." mode", this
> is 100% reproduceable.
>
> Is anything like this in bugzilla already?
Not to my knowledge. File a bug please (and possibly some more details
about the content of the page). Thanks.
John
> ian.
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