Re: Memory leak
On Friday 11 February 2022 11:06:01 am Celejar wrote:
> I seem to have a serious memory leak on my system (Lenovo W550s) - the
> memory usage seems to slowly but more or less steadily keep increasing.
>
> This is a more or less normal (I think) desktop installation of Sid,
> running Xfce4. Typical applications used are Firefox (currently with
> just one extension: uBlock Origin), LibreOffice Writer, Sylpheed, Xfce4
> Terminal, and Liferea, all from the official repos.
I have noticed similar behavior here, and the culprit seems to be firefox. If I ignore it things get sluggish, and then the machine starts to thrash, until the only recourse is the power switch. If I notice it in time, close firefox and restart it, the memory used after I do that is significantly less than it was before.
Somewhere in their help or documentation they even say that you shouldn't leave it running for extended periods of time.
I wish they'd fix it!
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