On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Paul McNett <[email protected]> wrote: > Stephen Russell wrote: >> I didn't have the patience to wait for FF to release the ram so i just >> restarted the laptop. Real simple. > > Quitting or killing FF should have been sufficient. Why wasn't it? -----------------
I have enough trouble finding my own memory leaks ;-D I will fall on the sword and say that I installed a BAD add-on. That was the problem. I chose not to add Rss Status and have not had the problem of ram reclamation since, on a new OS install. Was it only FF? Probably not. Was every measurement tool that I was using pointing to that exe and a lot of threads, oh yeah. > I abuse tabs, too. On my Mac with 4GB of RAM, I typically leave FF open with a > growing number of tabs (40 max probably) for days, while simultaneously > running TBird > and FF on other virtual machines (Linux and WinXP) running on that same Mac. --------------------- Since my new install I have been focused on my cursillo team weekend that just took place last weekend. I can now focus on a few other overwhelming tasks that I have let fall by the wayside. So I should have a better answer in a week or two after I start beating on the laptop like I use to. > If you kill the offending app, and the memory isn't released back to the OS, > how > exactly *isn't* this the OS's fault? ---------------------------- The killing was not completing within the app itself. The idea of killing FF at that point by using the close button = #FAIL. Using another tool to "clean that up" like Task Info or process.exe would NOT be able to terminate FF. I would say that the app and not the OS were at fault, YMMV. If you tried to restart FF it said that the other one was running and you could NOT start a new one. FF was broken at that point. Now that I look back at that I should have just switched default browsers over to IE because FF was getting in the way. Screw that! Instead I stuck with FF because of the thought that IE SUCKS. Yet I would restart my laptop once a day if not multiple times on heavy usage. I was missing the forest experience because I was surrounded by trees. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer SQL Server DBA Web and Winform Development Independent Contractor Memphis TN 901.246-0159 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
