Bug#640331: iceweasel 6.0 - huge ram use

[Mike Hommey]

On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 01:27:41PM +0200, niky45 wrote:
> Package: iceweasel
> Version: 6.0-4
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> iceweasel (6.0) just eats almost all my 2 Gb of ram. i have tried the
> previous 5.0, and everything works as expected (i mean, about ~400 Mb of
> used ram, while 6.0 uses about 1.5 Gb and mora than 500 Mb of swap)
> 
> i'm attaching a screenshot of htop, and iceweasel with just 3 tabs (and no
> flash running)
> 
> there it shows iceweasel's ram use: 1.3 Gb **without** buffers/cache,
> and over 2.5 gb counting that, too much.
> 
> oh. i'm using some addons. but i'm using them too on iceweasel 5.0, and
> it just don't use all my ram. 

Please copy/paste the content of about:memory
Please also try version 7 beta from experimental.
Also please be more specific than "1.5Gb with 3 tabs".
http://blog.mozilla.com/nnethercote/2011/08/29/browser-x-is-using-y-mb-of-memory-with-z-tabs-open-is-a-meaningless-observation/

Mike