Don Spam's Reckless Son wrote:
Ant wrote:
On 8/21/2020 1:55 PM, Edward wrote:
Ant wrote:
I have seen my seamonkey.exe process go up to 3 GB in my decade old,
updated 64-bit W7 HPE SP1 PC. :(
I wonder if there is a memory issue? This particular desktop is nine
years old, runs Linux exclusively and has 3.6Gb of memory, using LXDE
desktop.
Yes, current stable SeaMonkey (old Gecko engine) leaks and hogs a lot
due to many bloated web sites like LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Google
Maps, etc. :(
I have had Seamonkey (2.49.4, as most of you can see) open for around 13
hours now and it has been getting slower and slower for an hour or two.
When things got too bad to ignore, I closed the Google Maps tab (in a
private window) that had been open for pretty much all that time.
Seamonkey was back to its responsive best immediately.
I'd checked about:memory - and memory usage generally - shortly before
doing this and things looked pretty much normal, there was little
difference between Before and After. The Swapfile was not in use.
It was amazing what a difference one Google Maps tab made.
I've had this issue for some time in Windows implementations of
Seamonkey, especially after leaving Seamonkey open overnight. My
suspicion is with script-heavy web sites (despite my use of NoScript)
although checks of about:memory indicate quite a bit of usage in Mail
and News, where I do make some use of message filters. When things
start bogging down, a check of the Windows Task manager shows a lot of
CPU use for seamonkey.exe, and occasionally, I start seeing script
timeout errors. Sometimes, memory usage may be a little a GB, and
sometimes, I've seen it as high as around 2.5 GB. My computer isn't
trivial -- this is an 8th Gen Intel i5, where I have 16 GB of RAM, and
working from an SSD with adequate space.
However, since the time I upgraded to Seamonkey 2.53.2, I'm finding it
relatively rare that I see these issues. Although I haven't seen
anything in release notes indicating fixes related to possible memory
leaks, but things are much cleaner now.
Smith
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