maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 263436] www/firefox uses excessive amount of memory
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Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 13:19:17 UTC
Bugzilla Automation <bugzilla@FreeBSD.org> has asked freebsd-gecko (Nobody) <gecko@FreeBSD.org> for maintainer-feedback: Bug 263436: www/firefox uses excessive amount of memory https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=263436 --- Description --- Unfortunately, I don't have much hard data to present. Ever since I upgraded to Firefox 98, my system's RAM (16G) and swap (2G) get nearly exhausted within a couple of days of starting Firefox. Restarting Firefox releases all the memory as expected and all is well for 2-3 days before the memory consumption gets high enough to cause unnecessary paging. Before the upgrade to v98, I used to run firefox for weeks without *any* issues like this. Normally I use a couple of extensions, but I've reproduced it without any extensions enabled. $ grep firefox /var/log/messages Jan 20 14:23:29 satis pkg[1355]: firefox upgraded: 90.0.1,2 -> 95.0.2_2,2 Mar 19 12:55:28 satis pkg[91791]: firefox upgraded: 95.0.2_2,2 -> 98.0.1,2 Mar 28 22:30:31 satis kernel: pid 4282 (firefox), jid 0, uid 1000, was killed: out of swap space Apr 3 09:31:13 satis pkg[27892]: firefox upgraded: 98.0.1,2 -> 99.0,2 Apr 6 23:13:24 satis kernel: pid 10976 (firefox), jid 0, uid 1000, was killed: out of swap space Apr 10 18:47:58 satis pkg[1460]: firefox upgraded: 99.0,2 -> 99.0_1,2 Apr 16 17:27:15 satis pkg[81292]: firefox upgraded: 99.0_1,2 -> 99.0_2,2 Apr 19 00:04:57 satis kernel: pid 6668 (firefox), jid 0, uid 1000, was killed: out of swap space Apr 19 00:04:59 satis kernel: pid 82135 (firefox), jid 0, uid 1000, was killed: out of swap space Apr 19 00:05:01 satis kernel: pid 7545 (firefox), jid 0, uid 1000, was killed: out of swap space The firefox got killed because it ran the system out of memory on the 19th. I restarted it, and after ~10 hours of mostly idling it was: $ ps aux|egrep '(COMMAND|firefox)' USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND jeffpc 12355 0.1 7.1 11646412 593476 v0 S 09:48 0:18.64 firefox jeffpc 12357 0.0 1.6 287388 129120 v0 I 09:48 0:00.05 /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -content jeffpc 12358 0.0 2.0 2532140 168012 v0 I 09:48 0:00.48 /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -content jeffpc 12359 0.0 1.9 2522204 159644 v0 I 09:48 0:00.38 /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -content jeffpc 12362 0.0 4.6 2956960 381616 v0 S 09:48 0:04.63 /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -content jeffpc 12363 0.0 2.9 2794572 238748 v0 S 09:48 0:01.76 /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -content jeffpc 12367 0.0 1.8 2506476 148620 v0 I 09:49 0:00.26 /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -content jeffpc 12368 0.0 2.5 2567212 204548 v0 S 09:49 0:00.95 /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -content jeffpc 12369 0.0 1.9 2516688 160500 v0 S 09:49 0:00.78 /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -content jeffpc 12370 0.0 2.0 2526916 163660 v0 I 09:49 0:00.34 /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -content jeffpc 12372 0.0 2.1 2533480 176008 v0 S 09:49 0:02.67 /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -content jeffpc 12373 0.0 1.8 2503872 145752 v0 I 09:49 0:00.12 /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -content jeffpc 12394 0.0 1.8 2503868 146488 v0 I 09:49 0:00.11 /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -content jeffpc 12395 0.0 1.8 2503872 146452 v0 I 09:49 0:00.11 /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -content jeffpc 12445 0.0 0.0 12868 2016 7 S+ 09:53 0:00.00 egrep (COMMAND|firefox) Another 24 hours later (with some evening/morning browsing and lots of idling during the day/night): $ ps aux|egrep '(COMMAND|firefox)' USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND jeffpc 12355 0.6 12.5 12928316 1039292 v0 S 09:48 20:39.08 firefox jeffpc 17248 0.2 7.6 3500156 633440 v0 S 20:29 7:34.43 /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -conten jeffpc 17436 0.2 6.5 3633244 541748 v0 S 20:54 8:38.38 /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -conten jeffpc 16833 0.1 5.5 3447880 460024 v0 R 19:35 5:51.86 /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -conten jeffpc 12357 0.0 1.1 287516 94092 v0 I 09:48 0:00.10 /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -conten jeffpc 12358 0.0 1.7 2616232 143672 v0 I 09:48 0:06.67 /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -conten jeffpc 12359 0.0 1.4 2529100 112988 v0 I 09:48 0:01.75 /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -conten jeffpc 12362 0.0 6.5 3359912 537288 v0 S 09:48 4:46.52 /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -conten jeffpc 12363 0.0 2.7 3064288 226496 v0 S 09:48 2:10.52 /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -conten jeffpc 12367 0.0 1.4 2525440 113836 v0 S 09:49 0:04.57 /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -conten ...20 lines omitted... jeffpc 23084 0.0 1.6 2523704 135192 v0 S 08:49 0:01.00 /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -conten jeffpc 23085 0.0 1.5 2506320 125904 v0 S 08:49 0:00.56 /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -conten jeffpc 23086 0.0 1.5 2505404 125068 v0 S 08:49 0:00.53 /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -conten jeffpc 23087 0.0 1.7 2551240 140020 v0 S 08:49 0:00.89 /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -conten jeffpc 23088 0.0 1.5 2505272 124888 v0 S 08:49 0:00.50 /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -conten jeffpc 23099 0.0 4.8 2904628 396040 v0 S 08:50 0:35.20 /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -conten jeffpc 23109 0.0 1.5 2503872 122596 v0 I 08:51 0:00.27 /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -conten jeffpc 23205 0.0 1.5 2503872 126068 v0 S 08:59 0:00.27 /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -conten jeffpc 23236 0.0 1.5 2503872 126860 v0 I 09:02 0:00.18 /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -conten jeffpc 23253 0.0 0.0 12868 1932 7 S+ 09:04 0:00.00 egrep (COMMAND|firefox) What the ps(1) output doesn't show is that the virtual size of one of the processes seems to climb to as high as 25GB when actively browsing the web but quickly drop back down to "reasonable" single digit GB. Let me know what other information I should collect or what I should try to get to the bottom of this.