On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:10:16AM +0200, niky 45 wrote: > ok, some more tests. > > i was thinking, which extension can use so much ram?? so i had started > disabling te obvious ones: fasterfox (has some cache options that would use > pretty much ram), autopager, lazarus... > > the i thought: hey. what if i dis-enable ALL of them (again)?? the results > of the previous test, showed me that an idle measure of ram used (i.e. > having firefox opened for a couple minutes), are not always relevant. many > times, opening a (blank) tab, almost duplicates the ram use. > > so, i had disabled all of them, and opened some tabs: gmail (writing this), > the addons manager, the about memory one (which i show in the attached > screenshot), gogle reader, and a forum i usualy read (espaciolinux.com). > > at launch time, conky read ~300 Mb, a very good measurement. after opening > these tabs... voila!! now conky reads 1.31 Gb, and you can see (in the > attachment) that the about:memory gives similar data. > > in the second attachment, you can also see the addons: none enabled. (if > anybody wants the modified preferences section, tell me and i'll find a way > to upload it.) > > so, now, I think addons have nothing to do with the huge ram use. > > however, enabling safe mode, same tabs, showed a ram use of ~250 Mb. (sorry, > no screenshots, i thougth my email had been erased, so i closed iceweasel > without more testing, just to restart it in normal mode and see that my > email was just there.) > > so.... this shows that the problem is in the config?? should i reset the > config to see what happens?? any way to save a backup to restore it back in > case it's not a config problem?? > > PS: thank you both for helping. i never thought i would receive such replies > (the last time i sent a bug report (to debian lists), i think it got lost in > the mailing list, since i don't remeber receiving any reply)
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