Mozilla memory leak

[James McDonald]

On Fri, 31 May 2002 1:13, you wrote:
> Don't know if this is related ... I'm running Mozilla 1.0rc2.
I am running mozilla compiled from the latest source and it seems to create 6 
instances and at times it becomes dog slow... 

out from top sorted by memory.... it doesn't seem so bad that each instance 
uses 4.1 percent memory but I have 768MB installed on a smaller machine it 
would choke it.

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 4400 james      9   0 30412  29M 17208 S     0.0  4.1   0:15 mozilla-bin
 4406 james      9   0 30412  29M 17208 S     0.0  4.1   0:00 mozilla-bin
 4407 james      9   0 30412  29M 17208 S     0.0  4.1   0:00 mozilla-bin
 4408 james      9   0 30412  29M 17208 S     0.0  4.1   0:00 mozilla-bin
 4409 james      9   0 30412  29M 17208 S     0.0  4.1   0:00 mozilla-bin
 4410 james      9   0 30412  29M 17208 S     0.0  4.1   0:00 mozilla-bin

output from ps auxf

james     4400  5.3  4.1 46408 30404 ?       S    15:27   0:15  \_ 
/home/james/mozilla/mozilla-bin
james     4406  0.0  4.1 46408 30404 ?       S    15:27   0:00  |   \_ 
/home/james/mozilla/mozilla-bin
james     4407  0.1  4.1 46408 30404 ?       S    15:27   0:00  |       \_ 
/home/james/mozilla/mozilla-bin
james     4408  0.0  4.1 46408 30404 ?       S    15:27   0:00  |       \_ 
/home/james/mozilla/mozilla-bin
james     4409  0.0  4.1 46408 30404 ?       S    15:27   0:00  |       \_ 
/home/james/mozilla/mozilla-bin
james     4410  0.0  4.1 46408 30404 ?       S    15:27   0:00  |       \_ 
/home/james/mozilla/mozilla-bin

which reminds me how do you automatically kill of dead processes? I found 
that I had quite a few that were still in the list and hadn't been used for 2 
days .... 

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