Jan Beich <jbe...@freebsd.org> writes: > Andrea Venturoli <m...@netfence.it> writes: > >> Hello. >> >> I'm on 10.3/amd64 with firefox-esr 52.3.0. >> >> Since a few days my 4GiB desktop is crawling due to swap usage and >> looking at top, I see FireFox using almost 7GiB of RAM (SIZE column), >> 2.5 of which are "RES". > > Check about:memory and Devolper Tools -> Memory for clues. For more > advanced debugging (DMD, Refcount tracing) you'd need a custom build. > > Firefox on FreeBSD is known to consume more memory than on other > platforms because it uses system jemalloc rather than mozjemalloc. > Mozilla doesn't test memory usage without mozjemalloc. However, porting > mozjemalloc has stalled[1] unless someone helps. > > [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1153683
If one is on Firefox 55+ or FreeBSD 12+ while suboptimal compared to mozjemalloc the old jemalloc4 optimizations can be restored by $ MALLOC_CONF="narenas:1,tcache:false" firefox ... https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-esr52/source/memory/build/jemalloc_config.cpp#35 _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
