Ticket #207 (new defect)

Opened 6 months ago

Last modified 6 months ago

Large Memory Leak with Firefox 3.0b5

Reported by: trac-user Assigned to: fox
Priority: major Milestone:
Component: interface Version: HEAD
Keywords: memory leak Cc:

Description

I Have been using TT-RSS for a couple of months now. RSS feeds have accumulated several articles.

I am finding that when ever TT-RSS is retrieving the list of articles for a feed, Firefox memory usage skyrockets (up to 800MB) and does not go down.

This seems to occur after Firefox has downloaded the list of articles from the server and begins to populate the list. It makes the browser hang for about 2-3 seconds depending on the power of the CPU and takes up a lot of RAM. During the period Firefox is locked up RAM increases very fast from 60MB to at least 500MB.

This lock up in Firefox can occasionally cause it to crash.

Change History

05/13/08 09:28:35 changed by fox

As far as I understand, Javascript has garbage collection, so you can't really leak memory with it unless the interpreter is broken. If Mozilla interpreter leaks, it should be taken to Mozilla devs. Good luck with that...

Anyway, I don't see anything like that with FF3b5. Do you have any extensions installed? Try with blank profile, I remember that helping some people.