On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:18:22 +0100, Francesco Presel wrote: > I have just been forced to kill and restart SeaMonkey after it ate up > most of my memory. > Today, I have opened far more many tabs than usual (I usually have 5-6 > at a time maximum, but I had to do some image researches on the web and > to keep many results open at the same time). > Every now and then, I closed all those extra tabs, opened some new, ..., > and in the meantime the computer got slower and slower. > > I finally closed all tabs but 6, but the computer was still slow; from > the system monitor it came out that SM was using 2.6 GB of memory! > After restarting and restoring the same 6 tabs, it was using just 300MB > of memory (which is what SM uses on average on my computer). So, what > were the other 2.3 GB used for? It looks as if SM does not properly > deallocate memory when tabs are closed
To find out what the other 2.3 GB is used for type about:memory in the location (url) bar. If that doesn't give you enough information, at the bottom of the about:memory page is a "verbose" button. > Technical info: Linux 64bit, using SM 2.7.2 64 bit (from Ubuntuzilla > repo); total RAM 3.2GB + 4.7 GB swap Phil -- Philip Chee <phi...@aleytys.pc.my>, <philip.c...@gmail.com> http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ http://xsidebar.mozdev.org Guard us from the she-wolf and the wolf, and guard us from the thief, oh Night, and so be good for us to pass. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
