Bug#640331: iceweasel 6.0 - huge ram use

2011-09-15 Thread niky 45
ok, thanks. it took something more than just creating a new profile (I have had to copy the old one, delete the prefs.js from it, and reinstall a couple addons which didn't seem to like the hard-reset) now, conky shows ~375 Mb with the about:home, espaciolinux.com, gmail, google reader, and the

Bug#640331: iceweasel 6.0 - huge ram use

2011-09-15 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 03:32:53PM +0200, niky 45 wrote: ok, thanks. it took something more than just creating a new profile (I have had to copy the old one, delete the prefs.js from it, and reinstall a couple addons which didn't seem to like the hard-reset) now, conky shows ~375 Mb with the

Bug#640331: iceweasel 6.0 - huge ram use

2011-09-15 Thread niky 45
yeah, i already saw that (but, anyway, thank you for pointing at it). the point is, in the old profile, i have a ton of printer settings (don't know why) that i have to skip (i don't think printer has something to do with this). also, some settings are from the addons, which (i found) aren't

Bug#640331: iceweasel 6.0 - huge ram use

2011-09-14 Thread niky 45
ok, since I also know nothing about XUL, i'll try disabling extensions one by one, to see if at any point, that ram use falls to acceptable levels. first try is ABP, since is the only common extension we (Leo and me) are using. the ram use looks stable at 720 Mb (lower than before, but not

Bug#640331: iceweasel 6.0 - huge ram use

2011-09-14 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:10:16AM +0200, niky 45 wrote: ok, some more tests. i was thinking, which extension can use so much ram?? so i had started disabling te obvious ones: fasterfox (has some cache options that would use pretty much ram), autopager, lazarus... the i thought: hey. what

Bug#640331: iceweasel 6.0 - huge ram use

2011-09-13 Thread Leo 'costela' Antunes
Hi, On 13/09/11 15:56, niky 45 wrote: actualy, i don't think it's firebug. mainly, because i haven't it installed. Yeah, as I said in my previous email: I jumped the gun. this is what is shown on about:support (see attachment) The only extension we're both using is Adblock Plus, but I

Bug#640331: iceweasel 6.0 - huge ram use

2011-09-12 Thread Leo 'costela' Antunes
Hi again, On 11/09/11 21:47, Leo 'costela' Antunes wrote: After a bit of testing, it seems Firebug is the culprit. Damn, think I spoke too soon. Took longer than usual, but eventually memory usage spiked again. I'll keep testing with other plugins and post the results. Cheers -- Leo costela

Bug#640331: iceweasel 6.0 - huge ram use

2011-09-11 Thread Leo 'costela' Antunes
Hi, After a bit of testing, it seems Firebug is the culprit. This could be a fluke, but since I've left Iceweasel open for a couple of hours the results seem clear enough. Niky, was Firebug one of the plugins you had enabled? Unfortunately I'm not using the packaged version of Firebug, so I'm not

Bug#640331: iceweasel 6.0 - huge ram use

2011-09-05 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 01:27:41PM +0200, niky45 wrote: Package: iceweasel Version: 6.0-4 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, iceweasel (6.0) just eats almost all my 2 Gb of ram. i have tried the previous 5.0, and everything works as expected (i mean, about ~400 Mb of used ram, while

Bug#640331: iceweasel 6.0 - huge ram use

2011-09-05 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 04:06:28PM +0200, niky 45 wrote: first, thanks for replying. ok, there are some results. i'll attach a screenshot, with about:memory plus htop output. this time, two tabs, gmail (for writting this), and the about:memory from iceweasel. second, i have tried with

Bug#640331: iceweasel 6.0 - huge ram use

2011-09-05 Thread niky 45
well... i have now opened iceweasel (7.0b2) in safe mode, and... now it uses only about 124Mb (htop says). same tabs as before. i'll copy the about:memory info: ___ Main Process Explicit Allocations 123.55 MB (100.0%) -- explicit ├───53.08 MB (42.96%) --

Bug#640331: iceweasel 6.0 - huge ram use

2011-09-05 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 04:30:29PM +0200, niky 45 wrote: i suppose this means that it's not iceweasel's fault, but an extension. however, why does iceweasel 5.0 does not use so much ram, with the same extensions?? (yes, almost all of them are compatible with both versions. one or two of them,