On 2/28/18 7:35 AM, Stephen Koppes wrote: > Hello all, > > I must also chime in on what has certainly felt like a significant > performance loss that has crept into the FF engine. I went through the > prior troubleshooting steps as well, but found the biggest 'problem' was > continued use of the 32-bit version. Most all performance problems went > away when I started utilizing the 64-bit version, so that might be worth > a test? > > In hind-sight, the explosive advent of multimedia driven sites, combined > with add-on resource utilization, and the limitation of 2GB RAM per a > 32-bit application was apparently more than it could readily handle with > some of the more recent (~2 years) engine changes. Firefox was > constantly freezing while running garbage collection for seconds at a > time; while unfortunate, this is necessary, lest it try to use more RAM > than a 32-bit application is allowed, and gets forcibly terminated by > the O/S task scheduler. > > > I'm concerned, however, that this is a band-aid style approach. With > Firefox now running multiple processes with multiple tabs, and with the > RAM usage increasing on some new builds, I'm concerned that Firefox may > shortly be as bad as Chrome with resource utilization. > > Right now I have 5 Firefox windows open, with 7, 8, 8, 4, and 3 tabs > open, respectively. There are 7 instances of firefox.exe running, with a > memory Private Working Set allocation ranging from 202MB to 698MB. Total > 3,366MB private usage. I'm only actively using about 3 of these tabs; > the others are for reference purposes, or projects for when I get more > than a few spare minutes at a time.
Have you experimented with Quantum (FF 57+) on another machine perhaps? The main point of Quantum was to improve performance, but it would be impossible to backport that work to the current ESR codebase. (FWIW I'm running 1 FF Nightly window with 300+ tabs open, using ~1048MB RAM.) Peter
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