[ale] firefox oddity

[jdp at algoloma.com (JD)]

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Firefox sucking nearly all the RAM from any system isn't unusual.

Launch it in safe mode - see if that does better?
Disable java, javascript, flash ... does that help?

My system isn't x64, so the binary is /usr/lib/firefox/firefox.  There's a
separate process for flash - guess one of my tabs has some.

BTW - it is using 21% of the RAM here, but I've seen it over 85% before.

On 01/05/2015 02:35 PM, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> I just did a periodic check of the system via <htop> and discovered
> several instances of firefox running -- each with its own PID.
> 
> So I killed firefox and all those PIDs disappeared from the list.
> But when I restarted firefox they all came back and brought their
> siblings! According to htop there are 31 instances of firefox running.
> Except for the PID and the runtime, all the lines are the same:
> 
> PID  USER  PRI   NI VIRT    SHR  CPU%  MEM% TIME+   Command
> 1712  me   20    0  1795M 55800  0.0   4.9  0:11.9  /usr/lib64/firefox
> 
> Obviously there is a problem somewhere as the listed processes would be
> using 152% of memory, which clearly isn't happening.
> 
> htop reports current memory usage as 1588/7711 MB.
> 
> Anybody have a clue as to what is going on here?
>