> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:37:04 -0500 > From: Beverly Howard <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Memory Leak with SeaMonkey ...? > To: [email protected] > > >> SeaMonkey 1.1.x hemorrhages memory << > > A possibly related question... > > I am running 1.1.17 on a number of different XPPro SP2 boxes, one of > which is running XPPro Tablet Edition. > > Seamonkey is one of only _two_ programs which is not terminating > correctly and the old instances stay visible in task manager. I tend to > close seamonkey completely several times each day.
I tend to leave it running for 3-4 days... Until it gets to time-consuming > This happens _only_ on the Tablet Edition computer. I do not have SM's > quick launch option turned on. > > Since the tablet is exceptionally stable otherwise, it sometimes runs > for multiple weeks of all day use between reboots and I have found as > many as half a dozen instances of seamonkey running when looking in task > manager when no instance of seamonkey is visible on the taskbar. > > First... wonder if solaris has something similar to task manager to see > if the same is happening. It does. Called "top" or "ps"... "Top" organizes the processes by quantity of CPU/Memory/%run. "ps" justs lists all processes. For ps, you supply the ordering... > > Other than being a responsible computer user and rebooting my tablet > daily, anyone have any idea why only this computer has this issue? My Solaris boxen get rebooted about 2 times a month. Remarkably stable. Here's the last 10 reboots: metis% last -10 reboot reboot system boot Sat Jun 19 14:53 reboot system boot Fri Jun 18 19:45 reboot system boot Wed Apr 14 11:39 reboot system boot Sun Mar 28 00:04 reboot system boot Sat Mar 20 18:08 reboot system boot Fri Feb 19 13:25 reboot system boot Tue Dec 1 07:41 reboot system boot Sat Nov 14 10:22 reboot system boot Mon Sep 14 15:41 reboot system boot Tue Feb 3 12:44 Here is a sample "top": load averages: 0.04, 0.05, 0.05 metis 16:24:43 85 processes: 82 sleeping, 1 running, 1 stopped, 1 on cpu CPU states: 98.6% idle, 0.6% user, 0.8% kernel, 0.0% iowait, 0.0% swap Memory: 512M real, 201M free, 257M swap in use, 2.1G swap free Username to show: PID USERNAME THR PR NCE SIZE RES STATE TIME FLTS CPU COMMAND 15324 ghicks 1 49 0 2456K 1640K cpu00 0:00 0 0.69% top 14160 ghicks 3 49 0 139M 123M sleep 16:11 0 0.47% seamonkey-bin 309 root 1 59 0 169M 64.2M sleep 47:59 0 0.34% Xsun 354 ghicks 1 59 0 3784K 2504K sleep 18:06 0 0.23% xearth 412 ghicks 10 49 0 17.2M 14.5M sleep 10:49 0 0.13% dtmail 147 root 4 59 0 30.4M 20.6M sleep 3:43 0 0.11% named 403 ghicks 5 59 0 9.8M 7088K sleep 0:34 0 0.09% dtwm 415 ghicks 1 59 0 7560K 4480K sleep 0:11 0 0.04% sdtperfmeter 413 ghicks 1 49 0 7560K 4768K sleep 0:46 0 0.03% sdtperfmeter 15314 ghicks 1 59 0 4784K 3856K sleep 0:00 0 0.02% cmdtool 281 root 7 59 0 3104K 2008K sleep 1:11 0 0.00% mibiisa 395 ghicks 1 59 0 12.5M 9184K sleep 1:26 0 0.00% ttsession 405 ghicks 9 49 0 11.3M 8696K sleep 0:41 0 0.00% dtmail 396 ghicks 2 49 0 8872K 6120K sleep 0:26 0 0.00% dtsession 290 root 1 99 -20 2168K 1304K sleep 0:21 0 0.00% xntpd > > Thanks in advance, > Beverly Howard > > > > _______________________________________________ > support-seamonkey mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey --------------------------------------------------------------------- Gregory Hicks | Principal Systems Engineer | Direct: 408.569.7928 People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf -- George Orwell The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson "The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed." --Alexander Hamilton _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
