User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040722 Firefox/0.9.1+ Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040722 Firefox/0.9.1+ My problem (bug?) is a large-ish text url (all tables stuff) that totally crapsout FF (FireFox). The page is about 6 MB of text and links and comsumes more than 222 MB of memory. Due to my memory constraints FF gets totally IO bound thrashing in swap. I have captured a few snap- shots of top loading this page locally with some comments interspersed. I can open and use fine in Lynx and Links. I think this is the show stopper showing what many others are seeing opening many tabs etc. I hope this simple example will help with a fix. snapshots- --------start couple of xterms (rxvt) Vi and Top-------- top - 11:30:54 up 4 min, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.08, 0.04 Tasks: 28 total, 1 running, 27 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.0% user, 0.3% system, 0.0% nice, 99.7% idle Mem: 58356k total, 49716k used, 8640k free, 4284k buffers Swap: 256960k total, 0k used, 256960k free, 25752k cached --------start FF------- top - 11:32:06 up 5 min, 1 user, load average: 0.31, 0.14, 0.06 Tasks: 39 total, 3 running, 36 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 12.5% user, 3.0% system, 0.0% nice, 84.5% idle Mem: 58356k total, 57076k used, 1280k free, 2368k buffers Swap: 256960k total, 720k used, 256240k free, 23336k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ SWAP Command 2635 mung 9 0 23884 22m 12m S 0.0 39.2 0:07.14 1024 firefox-bin 2638 mung 9 0 23884 22m 12m S 0.0 39.2 0:00.00 1024 firefox-bin 2639 mung 9 0 23884 22m 12m S 0.0 39.2 0:00.01 1024 firefox-bin 2642 mung 9 0 23884 22m 12m S 0.0 39.2 0:00.01 1024 firefox-bin 2643 mung 9 0 23884 22m 12m S 0.0 39.2 0:00.00 1024 firefox-bin 2644 mung 9 0 23884 22m 12m S 0.0 39.2 0:00.00 1024 firefox-bin 2645 mung 9 0 23884 22m 12m S 0.0 39.2 0:00.00 1024 firefox-bin 2646 mung 9 0 23884 22m 12m S 0.0 39.2 0:00.01 1024 firefox-bin --------load URL (FF totally IO bound in swap)-------- top - 11:43:05 up 16 min, 1 user, load average: 0.80, 0.89, 0.51 Tasks: 36 total, 1 running, 35 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 2.0% user, 3.0% system, 0.0% nice, 95.1% idle Mem: 58356k total, 57104k used, 1252k free, 384k buffers Swap: 256960k total, 193144k used, 63816k free, 6124k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ SWAP Command 2635 mung 10 0 222m 46m 4800 S 0.0 81.9 2:37.95 175m firefox-bin 2638 mung 9 0 222m 46m 4800 S 0.0 81.9 0:00.00 175m firefox-bin 2639 mung 9 0 222m 46m 4800 S 0.0 81.9 0:00.01 175m firefox-bin 2643 mung 9 0 222m 46m 4800 S 0.0 81.9 0:00.06 175m firefox-bin 2648 mung 9 0 222m 46m 4800 S 0.0 81.9 0:00.01 175m firefox-bin --------Click on first link (giving up after one hour of thrashing, writing this in Vi with no problem)-------- --------FF - File -> quit-------- --------half an hour later... still writing this in Vi with no problem, FF still thrashing trying to shut down...-------- top - 12:33:12 up 1:06, 1 user, load average: 1.21, 1.15, 1.06 Tasks: 35 total, 1 running, 34 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.7% user, 3.6% system, 0.0% nice, 95.7% idle Mem: 58356k total, 56660k used, 1696k free, 240k buffers Swap: 256960k total, 188816k used, 68144k free, 1644k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ SWAP Command 2635 mung 13 0 217m 45m 28 D 0.3 80.7 3:06.43 171m firefox-bin 2638 mung 8 0 217m 45m 28 S 0.0 80.7 0:00.00 171m firefox-bin 2639 mung 9 0 217m 45m 28 S 0.0 80.7 0:00.02 171m firefox-bin 2643 mung 9 0 217m 45m 28 S 0.0 80.7 0:00.14 171m firefox-bin --------KILL -9 FF (I don't have hours to see if it will ever quit)-------- top - 12:35:14 up 1:08, 1 user, load average: 0.71, 1.05, 1.03 Tasks: 29 total, 2 running, 27 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.3% user, 0.3% system, 0.0% nice, 99.3% idle Mem: 58356k total, 11032k used, 47324k free, 376k buffers Swap: 256960k total, 12968k used, 243992k free, 3524k cached --------Have to shut down X windows to free swap. The above swap does not show up under any program in swap column in top.-------- Bottom line, why does a 6 MB text page require FF to eat 200 MB+ memory. Regards, -MaxM Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.enter url: http://www.fda.gov/cvm/index/ade/1999_ade.html - wait 30 seconds 2. click on first link 3.Firefox is FRIED Actual Results: See details above. 222+ MB memory used. Firefox wildly thrashing - unresponsive. must kill -9 Expected Results: Quietly display the page? uname -a: Linux mung.net 2.4.21-0.30MYmdk #2 Sun Jul 4 20:11:03 EDT 2004 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux top at beginning: start couple of xterms (rxvt) Vi and Top top - 11:30:54 up 4 min, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.08, 0.04 Tasks: 28 total, 1 running, 27 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.0% user, 0.3% system, 0.0% nice, 99.7% idle Mem: 58356k total, 49716k used, 8640k free, 4284k buffers Swap: 256960k total, 0k used, 256960k free, 25752k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ SWAP Command 2623 mung 14 0 968 968 784 R 0.3 1.7 0:00.06 0 top 1 root 9 0 496 496 448 S 0.0 0.8 0:05.24 0 init 2 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 0 [keventd] 3 root 18 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 0 [ksoftirqd_CPU0] 4 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 0 [kswapd] 5 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 0 [bdflush] 6 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 0 [kupdated] 7 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 0 [kjournald] 141 root 9 0 1120 1120 696 S 0.0 1.9 0:00.12 0 devfsd /dev 346 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 0 [kjournald] 1244 root 9 0 580 580 484 S 0.0 1.0 0:00.15 0 syslogd -m0 1252 root 9 0 1280 1280 440 S 0.0 2.2 0:00.34 0 klogd -2 2148 root 9 0 864 864 712 S 0.0 1.5 0:00.00 0 xinetd -stayalive -reuse -pidfile /var/run/xinetd.pi 2216 root 9 0 596 596 524 S 0.0 1.0 0:00.01 0 crond 2251 root 9 0 2176 2176 1192 S 0.0 3.7 0:00.36 0 /usr/local/sbin/powertweakd 2264 root 9 0 532 532 476 S 0.0 0.9 0:00.01 0 gpm -m /dev/mouse -t imps2 2273 root 9 0 408 408 364 S 0.0 0.7 0:00.00 0 /sbin/mingetty tty1 2274 root 9 0 1280 1280 1032 S 0.0 2.2 0:00.08 0 login -- mung 2275 root 9 0 408 408 364 S 0.0 0.7 0:00.00 0 /sbin/mingetty tty3 2484 mung 9 0 1560 1560 1096 S 0.0 2.7 0:00.11 0 -bash 2520 mung 8 0 612 612 540 S 0.0 1.0 0:00.12 0 fluxbox /usr/X11R6/bin/startfluxbox 2534 root 16 0 12996 8640 1836 S 0.0 14.8 0:02.55 4356 /etc/X11/X :0 2542 mung 9 0 3464 3460 2572 S 0.0 5.9 0:00.89 4 fluxbox 2550 mung 10 0 1372 1372 1120 S 0.0 2.4 0:00.15 0 /usr/X11R6/bin/rxvt.bin -T RXVT (en_US) -menu -fn 2556 mung 12 0 1556 1556 1088 S 0.0 2.7 0:00.12 0 bash 2585 mung 10 0 1384 1384 1120 S 0.0 2.4 0:00.17 0 /usr/X11R6/bin/rxvt.bin -T RXVT (en_US) -menu -fn 2591 mung 9 0 1576 1576 1096 S 0.0 2.7 0:00.11 0 bash 2622 mung 13 0 3828 3824 2748 S 0.0 6.6 0:00.22 4 vi crash

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