Eric Dorland wrote: > > Hmmm, you'll notice by the end of the output the virtual size stays > constant (in fact it shrinks slightly near the end), and the does seem > to be trending upward slightly, it does oscillate around a bit. The > rss number change purely due to the kernel's memory manager fiddling > with pages and not necessarily that the amount of memory consumed is > going up. You only ran the test for 10 hours, you should try running > it for several days to see if more of a trend appears.
Attached you will find a two day run (limited by a several hour power outage) for firefox with nothing displayed during the time (Homepage: about:blank) and the browser never used. Overall memory usage continues to grow. I plan to do similar tests with the browser actually displaying a page over several days. -- Jamin W. Collins
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