Memory leakage on Mac OS X 10.6.7
Firefox 4 appears to go from ~250 MB of memory usage to over 1 GB over the course of approximately 2 - 3 days on Mac OS X 10.6.7.
Not sure if you're aware of this, but wanted to mention it.
I'm hoping for a point release that addresses these memory leakage concerns soon.
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I just had to restart everything because my new Firefox 4 was using over 2GB! I have 8GB all together and couldn't run anything. It's also doing lots of hanging and "stuttering" - little delays when scrolling, entering web based forms etc. Very frustrating! Might roll back.
Semi-Technical :
I am not on OS X (as of now), but perhaps this will give some helpful pointers:
- The leaks tool (man page)
This manual page is part of Xcode Tools version 4.0- Require Install of the Xcode Tools (say on page with link)
- [the Mac OS X leaks tool]
And:
3. Memory Usage Performance Guidelines
- From: «Mac OS X Developer Library»
- Have ie:
(Hopefully someone can test, check and reply a how-to or other information from this.)