Bug#452706: memory growth even without any usage, extensions, or bookmarks
* Jamin W. Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Eric Dorland wrote: Hmmm, you'll notice by the end of the output the virtual size stays constant (in fact it shrinks slightly near the end), and the does seem to be trending upward slightly, it does oscillate around a bit. The rss number change purely due to the kernel's memory manager fiddling with pages and not necessarily that the amount of memory consumed is going up. You only ran the test for 10 hours, you should try running it for several days to see if more of a trend appears. Attached you will find a two day run (limited by a several hour power outage) for firefox with nothing displayed during the time (Homepage: about:blank) and the browser never used. Overall memory usage continues to grow. I plan to do similar tests with the browser actually displaying a page over several days. Firefox 3 is around the corner and in experimental. Willing to take it for a spin and see if it's as bad? -- Eric Dorland [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#452706: memory growth even without any usage, extensions, or bookmarks
Eric Dorland wrote: Hmmm, you'll notice by the end of the output the virtual size stays constant (in fact it shrinks slightly near the end), and the does seem to be trending upward slightly, it does oscillate around a bit. The rss number change purely due to the kernel's memory manager fiddling with pages and not necessarily that the amount of memory consumed is going up. You only ran the test for 10 hours, you should try running it for several days to see if more of a trend appears. Attached you will find a two day run (limited by a several hour power outage) for firefox with nothing displayed during the time (Homepage: about:blank) and the browser never used. Overall memory usage continues to grow. I plan to do similar tests with the browser actually displaying a page over several days. -- Jamin W. Collins firefox-bin.odin.log.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data
Bug#452706: memory growth even without any usage, extensions, or bookmarks
* Jamin W. Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Package: iceweasel
Version: 2.0.0.6+2.0.0.8-0etch1
Even without any actual usage, active extensions, or bookmarks the
iceweasel program continues to increase the amount of memory it uses.
The increase is gradual, but there none the less. Iceweasel was simply
started and left idle during the test, no page displayed of any kind.
I'm attaching both the script that was used to monitor the process and
the resultant output.
Hmmm, you'll notice by the end of the output the virtual size stays
constant (in fact it shrinks slightly near the end), and the does seem
to be trending upward slightly, it does oscillate around a bit. The
rss number change purely due to the kernel's memory manager fiddling
with pages and not necessarily that the amount of memory consumed is
going up. You only ran the test for 10 hours, you should try running
it for several days to see if more of a trend appears.
--- System information. ---
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-k7
Debian Release: 4.0
--- Package information. ---
Depends (Version) | Installed
==-+-
fontconfig | 2.4.2-1.2
psmisc | 22.3-1
debianutils (= 1.16) | 2.17
libatk1.0-0(= 1.12.2) | 1.12.4-3
libc6 (= 2.3.6-6) | 2.3.6.ds1-13etch2
libcairo2 (= 1.2.4) | 1.2.4-4
libfontconfig1 (= 2.4.0) | 2.4.2-1.2
libfreetype6 (= 2.2) | 2.2.1-5+etch1
libgcc1(= 1:4.1.1-12) | 1:4.1.1-21
libglib2.0-0 (= 2.12.0) | 2.12.4-2
libgtk2.0-0 (= 2.8.0) | 2.8.20-7
libjpeg62 | 6b-13
libmyspell3c2 | 1:3.1-18
libpango1.0-0 (= 1.14.8) | 1.14.8-5
libpng12-0 (= 1.2.13-4) | 1.2.15~beta5-1
libstdc++6 (= 4.1.1-12) | 4.1.1-21
libx11-6 | 2:1.0.3-7
libxft2 ( 2.1.1) | 2.1.8.2-8
libxinerama1 | 1:1.0.1-4.1
libxp6 | 1:1.0.0.xsf1-1
libxrender1| 1:0.9.1-3
libxt6 | 1:1.0.2-2
zlib1g(= 1:1.2.1) | 1:1.2.3-13
#!/bin/bash
#
#
# The parameter entered via $1 is the process name which is listed
# If it is left out then firefox-bin is the default
#
# MDC 050228
# Amended GC 050301
# Amended Mike MDC 060610
#
# set process name
if [ -z $1 ]; then
Process_Name=firefox-bin
else
Process_Name=$1
fi
# Set logfile
hname=$(hostname)
hname=${hname%%.*}
LOGFILE_NAME=$Process_Name.$hname.log
#
# How long to run
#
let period_mins=5
let num_checks=6*24
DAY=$(date +%d)
MONTH=$(date +%B)
TIMENOW=$(date +%r)
# echo Listing process details
echo
echo Listing process information on $DAY $MONTH at $TIMENOW
echo for process: $Process_Name ...
echo
if [ -a $LOGFILE_NAME ]; then
echo Process info added to $LOGFILE_NAME
new_log=no
else
echo Process information for $Process_Name $LOGFILE_NAME
echo $LOGFILE_NAME created and process info added
new_log=yes
fi
#
# Loop
#
if [ $new_log = yes ] ; then
echoDate : Command vsize rss$LOGFILE_NAME
echo --- : -- -$LOGFILE_NAME
fi
let period_secs=$period_mins*60
let i=0
while (( i num_checks))
do
datime=$(date +%d-%H:%M:%S)
echo -n $datime : | tee -a $LOGFILE_NAME
ps -ocomm=,vsize=,rss= -C $Process_Name | tee -a $LOGFILE_NAME
sleep $period_secs
let i=++i
done
exit 0
--
Eric Dorland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Bug#452706: memory growth even without any usage, extensions, or bookmarks
Package: iceweasel Version: 2.0.0.6+2.0.0.8-0etch1 Even without any actual usage, active extensions, or bookmarks the iceweasel program continues to increase the amount of memory it uses. The increase is gradual, but there none the less. Iceweasel was simply started and left idle during the test, no page displayed of any kind. I'm attaching both the script that was used to monitor the process and the resultant output. --- System information. --- Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-k7 Debian Release: 4.0 --- Package information. --- Depends (Version) | Installed ==-+- fontconfig | 2.4.2-1.2 psmisc | 22.3-1 debianutils (= 1.16) | 2.17 libatk1.0-0(= 1.12.2) | 1.12.4-3 libc6 (= 2.3.6-6) | 2.3.6.ds1-13etch2 libcairo2 (= 1.2.4) | 1.2.4-4 libfontconfig1 (= 2.4.0) | 2.4.2-1.2 libfreetype6 (= 2.2) | 2.2.1-5+etch1 libgcc1(= 1:4.1.1-12) | 1:4.1.1-21 libglib2.0-0 (= 2.12.0) | 2.12.4-2 libgtk2.0-0 (= 2.8.0) | 2.8.20-7 libjpeg62 | 6b-13 libmyspell3c2 | 1:3.1-18 libpango1.0-0 (= 1.14.8) | 1.14.8-5 libpng12-0 (= 1.2.13-4) | 1.2.15~beta5-1 libstdc++6 (= 4.1.1-12) | 4.1.1-21 libx11-6 | 2:1.0.3-7 libxft2 ( 2.1.1) | 2.1.8.2-8 libxinerama1 | 1:1.0.1-4.1 libxp6 | 1:1.0.0.xsf1-1 libxrender1| 1:0.9.1-3 libxt6 | 1:1.0.2-2 zlib1g(= 1:1.2.1) | 1:1.2.3-13 Process information for firefox-bin Date : Command vsize rss --- : -- - 25-19:25:43 : firefox-bin 96024 28988 25-19:30:43 : firefox-bin 104348 29244 25-19:35:43 : firefox-bin 104348 29284 25-19:40:43 : firefox-bin 104348 29288 25-19:45:43 : firefox-bin 104348 29292 25-19:50:43 : firefox-bin 104348 29292 25-19:55:43 : firefox-bin 104836 29836 25-20:00:43 : firefox-bin 104836 29852 25-20:05:43 : firefox-bin 104836 29852 25-20:10:43 : firefox-bin 104836 29852 25-20:15:43 : firefox-bin 104836 29852 25-20:20:43 : firefox-bin 104836 29852 25-20:25:43 : firefox-bin 104836 29852 25-20:30:43 : firefox-bin 104836 29852 25-20:35:43 : firefox-bin 104836 29852 25-20:40:43 : firefox-bin 104836 29916 25-20:45:43 : firefox-bin 104836 29916 25-20:50:43 : firefox-bin 104836 29916 25-20:55:43 : firefox-bin 104836 29916 25-21:00:43 : firefox-bin 104836 29916 25-21:05:43 : firefox-bin 104836 29916 25-21:10:43 : firefox-bin 104836 29916 25-21:15:43 : firefox-bin 104836 29916 25-21:20:43 : firefox-bin 104836 29916 25-21:25:43 : firefox-bin 104836 29916 25-21:30:43 : firefox-bin 104836 29916 25-21:35:43 : firefox-bin 104836 29916 25-21:40:43 : firefox-bin 104836 29916 25-21:45:43 : firefox-bin 104836 29916 25-21:50:43 : firefox-bin 104836 29916 25-21:55:43 : firefox-bin 104836 29936 25-22:00:43 : firefox-bin 104836 29936 25-22:05:43 : firefox-bin 104836 29936 25-22:10:43 : firefox-bin 104836 29936 25-22:15:43 : firefox-bin 104836 29936 25-22:20:43 : firefox-bin 104836 29936 25-22:25:43 : firefox-bin 104836 29936 25-22:30:44 : firefox-bin 104836 29936 25-22:35:44 : firefox-bin 104836 29936 25-22:40:44 : firefox-bin 104836 29936 25-22:45:44 : firefox-bin 104836 29936 25-22:50:44 : firefox-bin 104836 29936 25-22:55:44 : firefox-bin 104836 29996 25-23:00:44 : firefox-bin 104836 29996 25-23:05:44 : firefox-bin 104836 29996 25-23:10:44 : firefox-bin 104836 29996 25-23:15:44 : firefox-bin 104836 29996 25-23:20:44 : firefox-bin 104836 29996 25-23:25:44 : firefox-bin 104836 30040 25-23:30:44 : firefox-bin 104836 30040 25-23:35:44 : firefox-bin 104836 30040 25-23:40:44 : firefox-bin 104836 30040 25-23:45:44 : firefox-bin 104836 30040 25-23:50:44 : firefox-bin 104836 30040 25-23:55:44 : firefox-bin 104836 30040 26-00:00:44 : firefox-bin 104836 30040 26-00:05:44 : firefox-bin 104836 30040 26-00:10:44 : firefox-bin 104836 30040 26-00:15:44 : firefox-bin 104836 30040 26-00:20:44 : firefox-bin 104836 30040 26-00:25:44 : firefox-bin 104836 30092 26-00:30:44 : firefox-bin 104836 30092 26-00:35:44 : firefox-bin 104836 30092 26-00:40:44 : firefox-bin 104836 30092 26-00:45:44 : firefox-bin 104836 30092 26-00:50:44 : firefox-bin 104836 30092 26-00:55:44 : firefox-bin 104836 30092 26-01:00:44 : firefox-bin 104836 30092 26-01:05:44 : firefox-bin 104836 30092 26-01:10:44 : firefox-bin 104836 30092 26-01:15:44 : firefox-bin 104836 30092 26-01:20:44 : firefox-bin 104836 30092 26-01:25:44 : firefox-bin 104828 30092
