well... i have now opened iceweasel (7.0b2) in safe mode, and... now it uses only about 124Mb (htop says). same tabs as before. <br><br>i'll copy the about:memory info:<br>___________________________________________<br>
Main Process<br><br>Explicit Allocations<br>123.55 MB (100.0%) -- explicit<br>├───53.08 MB (42.96%) -- js<br>│ ├──15.95 MB (12.91%) -- compartment(<a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?hl=es&tab=..">https://mail.google.com/mail/?hl=es&tab=..</a>.)<br>
│ │ ├───9.25 MB (07.49%) -- gc-heap<br>│ │ │ ├──5.37 MB (04.34%) -- objects<br>│ │ │ ├──2.38 MB (01.93%) -- shapes<br>│ │ │ ├──1.09 MB (00.88%) -- arena-unused<br>│ │ │ └──0.42 MB (00.34%) -- (4 omitted)<br>
│ │ ├───3.99 MB (03.23%) -- scripts<br>│ │ ├───1.84 MB (01.49%) -- object-slots<br>│ │ ├───0.67 MB (00.54%) -- string-chars<br>│ │ └───0.19 MB (00.15%) -- (4 omitted)<br>│ ├──13.79 MB (11.16%) -- compartment([System Principal])<br>
│ │ ├──10.75 MB (08.70%) -- gc-heap<br>│ │ │ ├───4.99 MB (04.04%) -- arena-unused<br>│ │ │ ├───3.42 MB (02.77%) -- objects<br>│ │ │ ├───2.14 MB (01.73%) -- shapes<br>│ │ │ └───0.20 MB (00.16%) -- (4 omitted)<br>
│ │ ├───1.86 MB (01.50%) -- scripts<br>│ │ ├───0.77 MB (00.62%) -- object-slots<br>│ │ └───0.42 MB (00.34%) -- (5 omitted)<br>│ ├──11.15 MB (09.03%) -- gc-heap-chunk-unused<br>│ ├───8.00 MB (06.47%) -- stack<br>
│ ├───3.58 MB (02.89%) -- compartment(atoms)<br>│ │ ├──2.34 MB (01.89%) -- string-chars<br>│ │ ├──1.24 MB (01.00%) -- gc-heap<br>│ │ │ ├──1.21 MB (00.98%) -- strings<br>│ │ │ └──0.03 MB (00.02%) -- (6 omitted)<br>
│ │ └──0.00 MB (00.00%) -- (6 omitted)<br>│ └───0.62 MB (00.50%) -- (3 omitted)<br>├───43.32 MB (35.06%) -- heap-unclassified<br>├───17.72 MB (14.34%) -- storage<br>│ └──17.72 MB (14.34%) -- sqlite<br>│ ├──14.74 MB (11.93%) -- places.sqlite<br>
│ │ ├──14.50 MB (11.74%) -- cache-used<br>│ │ └───0.24 MB (00.19%) -- (2 omitted)<br>│ ├───1.39 MB (01.12%) -- (11 omitted)<br>│ ├───0.97 MB (00.78%) -- other<br>│ └───0.63 MB (00.51%) -- cookies.sqlite<br>
│ ├──0.62 MB (00.50%) -- cache-used<br>│ └──0.01 MB (00.01%) -- (2 omitted)<br>├────5.66 MB (04.58%) -- images<br>│ ├──5.41 MB (04.38%) -- content<br>│ │ ├──5.41 MB (04.38%) -- used<br>│ │ │ ├──4.84 MB (03.92%) -- uncompressed<br>
│ │ │ └──0.57 MB (00.46%) -- (1 omitted)<br>│ │ └──0.00 MB (00.00%) -- (1 omitted)<br>│ └──0.25 MB (00.20%) -- (1 omitted)<br>├────2.92 MB (02.36%) -- layout<br>│ ├──2.92 MB (02.36%) -- all<br>│ └──0.00 MB (00.00%) -- (1 omitted)<br>
└────0.85 MB (00.69%) -- xpti-working-set<br><br>Other Measurements<br>596.25 MB -- vsize<br>190.00 MB -- heap-committed<br>155.08 MB -- resident<br>115.24 MB -- heap-used<br> 74.76 MB -- heap-unused<br> 33.00 MB -- js-gc-heap<br>
2.38 MB -- heap-dirty<br> 0.08 MB -- gfx-surface-image<br> 175,523 -- soft-page-faults<br> 312 -- hard-page-faults<br>_______________________________________<br><br>i suppose this means that it's not iceweasel's fault, but an extension. however, why does iceweasel 5.0 does not use so much ram, with the same extensions?? (yes, almost all of them are compatible with both versions. one or two of them, however, are not compatible with anything above 3.5, i think. i'm using the addon comatibility reporter to run them.). as i said, none of them cause trouble in iceweasel 5.0. <br>
<br>PS: i'll give a list of extensions, but have no idea of how to get such a list in plain text (i have enough of them to not show in a single screenshot)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/9/5 Mike Hommey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mh@glandium.org">mh@glandium.org</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 04:06:28PM +0200, niky 45 wrote:<br>
> first, thanks for replying.<br>
><br>
> ok, there are some results. i'll attach a screenshot, with about:memory plus<br>
> htop output. this time, two tabs, gmail (for writting this), and the<br>
> about:memory from iceweasel.<br>
><br>
> second, i have tried with 7.0b2 (from experimental). at first it looked it<br>
> wouldn't use too much ram, but after a while (~ 5 minutes), it uses almost<br>
> the same. take a look at the second screenshot. (note: same tabs, gmail, and<br>
> the about:memory )<br>
<br>
</div>Did you try without plugins and without extensions ?<br>
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Mike<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>_.-'((NikY))'-._<br><br><br><br><br>