Philip Chee wrote:
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
Hello Phil,
Very good advice on your links to memory usage. I had seen this before,
but couldn't pay much attention to the reports because they are as usual
in "Tech Speak".
Is there a reference we can refer to, to better understand what we are
reading?
Win XP Pro sr3
Thanks for your support,
Michael Gordon
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