I believe part of it is firebugs network monitoring feature. In my specific case I have multiple dns entries for my tilecache server so the browser is firing off a significant number of requests. Having firebug monitor these requests was consuming a bunch of memory and slowing things down a good deal.
Jon Britton wrote: > > > Ah.. yes I do. I'll turn it off tomorrow when I get a chance and see if it > makes a difference. I wonder why that would do it... there must be a bug > somewhere with it. > Thanks, > jon > > > cmose wrote: >> >> Do you have firebug enabled? Firefox consumes massive amounts of memory >> when I'm running my client with firebug enabled... >> >> >> Jon Britton wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> I'm using Firefox to display a map serverd by GeoServer with only three >>> layers being displayed (Google, roads, points). In Internet Explorer 6 >>> the memory usage sticks to around 60MB, however Firefox just keeps >>> eating up memory and lags my machine! At the moment I'm running it and >>> it's hit 350MB memory usage. It's as if it's cachine the images itself >>> or something. >>> >>> Has anybody else had a problem with this? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Jon >>> >> >> > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Firefox-memory-usage-tp15160377p15167555.html Sent from the OpenLayers Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
