[DragonFlyBSD - Bug #2307] Firefox has memory leak

[Pierre Abbat via Redmine]

Issue #2307 has been updated by Pierre Abbat.


It happened again last night, without Firefox. /var/log/messages has lines like this:

Feb 17 06:14:51 darner kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed alloc=2
Feb 17 06:14:51 darner kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed alloc=5
Feb 17 06:14:51 darner kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed alloc=4
Feb 17 06:14:51 darner kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed alloc=2
Feb 17 06:15:22 darner kernel: Warning: system low on memory+swap!
Feb 17 06:15:46 darner last message repeated 7 times
Feb 17 06:18:12 darner last message repeated 31 times
Feb 17 06:18:14 darner kernel: Warning: system low on memory+swap!
Feb 17 06:18:14 darner kernel: pid 1066 (Xorg), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space
Feb 17 06:18:21 darner kdm[1063]: X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly
Feb 17 06:19:15 darner kdm[1063]: X server startup timeout, terminating
Feb 17 06:19:34 darner kdm[1063]: X server for display :0 cannot be started, session disabled

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Bug #2307: Firefox has memory leak
http://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/issues/2307

Author: Pierre Abbat
Status: New
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: 
Target version: 


I had Firefox (the prepackaged one that calls itself Aurora) open for two days or so. If I use it after it's been up for several hours, it gets slow, and I have to kill and restart it. I forgot to do this, so during Hammer maintenance, the kernel killed X, resulting in a strange display. I had to shell in from another box and kill kdm, then as processes still using the dead X remained, I had to reboot. Firefox version is 6.0.2; kernel version is v3.1.0.114.g7fba7-DEVELOPMENT. I had a few Google Docs and Google Maps open in it. I don't see Konqueror taking over the memory like this.


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