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Firefox grabbing so much memory
26-12-2012 11:06 PM
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Currently at 1.8GB and rising!
Once it starts getting higher than around 1.3GB it appears to quite a dramatic affect on the overal speed of the PC even though the CPU usage is still very low (around 23% at the moment). This is on a PC with quad core and 16GB RAM.
As soon as I end FF processes everything is back to normal again... till the next time
Anyone else having similar experiences?
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Re: Firefox grabbing so much memory
26-12-2012 11:10 PM
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Try changing it to 64MB (for example).
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Re: Firefox grabbing so much memory
26-12-2012 11:14 PM
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I seem to remember this has come up before and now I'm pretty certain I did set it to a lower figure previously but when I just checked there was no limit set.
I have actually set it a fair bit higher at 640MB and will see how that goes.
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Re: Firefox grabbing so much memory
27-12-2012 12:20 AM
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Re: Firefox grabbing so much memory
27-12-2012 12:27 AM
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Task manager is reporting over 1.6GB!
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Re: Firefox grabbing so much memory
27-12-2012 1:26 AM
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That's a hidden preference and is accessed by typing into the location "about:config" and searching for 'cache'.
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27-12-2012 7:13 AM
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More seriously, there is about:memory which gives a breakdown of Firefox's memory usage.
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27-12-2012 9:44 AM
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27-12-2012 3:40 PM
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Will see how it pans out.
Ta.
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Re: Firefox grabbing so much memory
28-12-2012 4:57 PM
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Task Manager is currently showing FF as using almost 1.1GB and rising!
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28-12-2012 5:04 PM
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29-12-2012 2:01 AM
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I don't know If you have any of these, but my maximum firefox SQLite database (with no active cleaning on my part over at least a year) amounts to 20MBytes.
How much history do you keep?
I suspect Firefox is set to auto-clean (a SQLite feature).
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30-12-2012 12:48 AM
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03-01-2013 9:41 PM
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