Public bug reported:
I use lot's of tabs in firefox, and I also stream videos. Firefox uses
lot's of memory in the first place, and it also seems to leak memory as
well. The default install gave me very little swap. When my system
runs out of memory, it swaps almost endlessly. This last time, it was
more than 20 minutes of swapping, so I got frustrated, reboot, and now
I'm filing a bug.
I see this as affecting several aspects of my system:
1) the installer only gave me a 1g swap file to pair with my 12g of memory, and
it gave me no option to set it myself. At some point, that changed to 2g and I
don't know how. I installed on 18.04, fresh install over an old /home
directory. A little background: I normally manually set my partitions (msdos),
and give myself a swap partition that is at least the same size as my ram, and
maybe up to double it. I upgraded to a new ssd drive, and tried to go with the
new partitioning system, gpt. I realized I didn't know how to setup gpt, so I
went with a default install, and copied over my /home from a backup. Anyway,
not super important.
2)Firefox uses up tons of memory, and leaks it. Firefox also keeps asking for
memory from my system, even though there is none left
3) My system keeps trying to give firefox more memory, even though there is
none left. And it swap kills my system. Shouldn't the system just give
firefox an oom error?
4) When I have let this whole swap death thing just go on, it eventually stops
by killing some part of firefox and getting some more memory back. Usually it
kills the extensions part of firefox. But why does it take so long?
5) There is no warning that my system is running out of memory.
I feel like each of the above is a different bug, at a certain level,
and they are all coming together and crashing my system. I filed this
bug against firefox because, on irc, it was suggested as a place to
start.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: firefox 81.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-48.52-generic 5.4.60
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-48-generic x86_64
AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.9
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0: dan 977 F.... pulseaudio
/dev/snd/controlC1: dan 977 F.... pulseaudio
BuildID: 20200917005511
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
Channel: Unavailable
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Sat Oct 10 21:42:58 2020
Extensions: extensions.sqlite corrupt or missing
ForcedLayersAccel: False
IfupdownConfig:
# interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
IncompatibleExtensions: Unavailable (corrupt or non-existant compatibility.ini
or extensions.sqlite)
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-04-01 (192 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
IpRoute:
default via 192.168.1.1 dev wlp3s0 proto dhcp metric 600
169.254.0.0/16 dev wlp3s0 scope link metric 1000
192.168.1.0/24 dev wlp3s0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.168 metric 600
Locales: extensions.sqlite corrupt or missing
MostRecentCrashID: bp-48402263-1b90-42d3-86b7-c699e0181219
PrefErrors: Unexpected character ',' before close parenthesis @
/usr/lib/firefox/omni.ja:greprefs.js:733
PrefSources: prefs.js
Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=81.0/20200917005511 (In use)
RunningIncompatibleAddons: False
SourcePackage: firefox
SubmittedCrashIDs:
bp-48402263-1b90-42d3-86b7-c699e0181219
bp-b69a351e-b146-48a6-b796-51a930180711
bp-02f439df-b929-4277-8faa-692570180518
Themes: extensions.sqlite corrupt or missing
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-09-29 (11 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 09/03/2013
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A05
dmi.board.name: 0CYT5F
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 9
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias:
dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA05:bd09/03/2013:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeE6540:pvr01:rvnDellInc.:rn0CYT5F:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct9:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Latitude E6540
dmi.product.sku: Latitude E6540
dmi.product.version: 01
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug focal
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Title:
firefox leaks memory and crashes computer (lack of swap)
Status in firefox package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
I use lot's of tabs in firefox, and I also stream videos. Firefox
uses lot's of memory in the first place, and it also seems to leak
memory as well. The default install gave me very little swap. When
my system runs out of memory, it swaps almost endlessly. This last
time, it was more than 20 minutes of swapping, so I got frustrated,
reboot, and now I'm filing a bug.
I see this as affecting several aspects of my system:
1) the installer only gave me a 1g swap file to pair with my 12g of memory,
and it gave me no option to set it myself. At some point, that changed to 2g
and I don't know how. I installed on 18.04, fresh install over an old /home
directory. A little background: I normally manually set my partitions (msdos),
and give myself a swap partition that is at least the same size as my ram, and
maybe up to double it. I upgraded to a new ssd drive, and tried to go with the
new partitioning system, gpt. I realized I didn't know how to setup gpt, so I
went with a default install, and copied over my /home from a backup. Anyway,
not super important.
2)Firefox uses up tons of memory, and leaks it. Firefox also keeps asking
for memory from my system, even though there is none left
3) My system keeps trying to give firefox more memory, even though there is
none left. And it swap kills my system. Shouldn't the system just give
firefox an oom error?
4) When I have let this whole swap death thing just go on, it eventually
stops by killing some part of firefox and getting some more memory back.
Usually it kills the extensions part of firefox. But why does it take so long?
5) There is no warning that my system is running out of memory.
I feel like each of the above is a different bug, at a certain level,
and they are all coming together and crashing my system. I filed this
bug against firefox because, on irc, it was suggested as a place to
start.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: firefox 81.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-48.52-generic 5.4.60
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-48-generic x86_64
AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.9
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0: dan 977 F.... pulseaudio
/dev/snd/controlC1: dan 977 F.... pulseaudio
BuildID: 20200917005511
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
Channel: Unavailable
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Sat Oct 10 21:42:58 2020
Extensions: extensions.sqlite corrupt or missing
ForcedLayersAccel: False
IfupdownConfig:
# interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
IncompatibleExtensions: Unavailable (corrupt or non-existant
compatibility.ini or extensions.sqlite)
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-04-01 (192 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64
(20180426)
IpRoute:
default via 192.168.1.1 dev wlp3s0 proto dhcp metric 600
169.254.0.0/16 dev wlp3s0 scope link metric 1000
192.168.1.0/24 dev wlp3s0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.168 metric
600
Locales: extensions.sqlite corrupt or missing
MostRecentCrashID: bp-48402263-1b90-42d3-86b7-c699e0181219
PrefErrors: Unexpected character ',' before close parenthesis @
/usr/lib/firefox/omni.ja:greprefs.js:733
PrefSources: prefs.js
Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=81.0/20200917005511 (In use)
RunningIncompatibleAddons: False
SourcePackage: firefox
SubmittedCrashIDs:
bp-48402263-1b90-42d3-86b7-c699e0181219
bp-b69a351e-b146-48a6-b796-51a930180711
bp-02f439df-b929-4277-8faa-692570180518
Themes: extensions.sqlite corrupt or missing
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-09-29 (11 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 09/03/2013
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A05
dmi.board.name: 0CYT5F
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 9
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias:
dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA05:bd09/03/2013:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeE6540:pvr01:rvnDellInc.:rn0CYT5F:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct9:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Latitude E6540
dmi.product.sku: Latitude E6540
dmi.product.version: 01
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
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