RAM Leaks

[mrSHEiK124]

Why is it acceptable for every single piece of software on the consumer market (except Google Chrome) to have horrible, seemingly unfixable RAM leaks? Firefox has been a RAM-whore since I started using it at 1.5 or 1.6. Closing Firefox seems to be able to free up 2 GB+ of RAM; I have 6 tabs open.

DownThemAll also RAM leaks all over the place, try downloading the Windows 7 RC using it, it tries to put the fucking file into RAM or something because it too sends my RAM usage into the 90s%, and I have 4 GB.

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009 is also getting worthy mention. On top of having Firefox eat 500 MB of RAM to display Google dot fucking com, DTA eat 1 GB to download the new version of Firefox, and iTunes eat 500 MB to display my library as an uncompressed fucking bitmap or something, Kaspersky has to load all that into resident memory a second time in order to scan it.

Acronis TrueImage backups frequently cause my computer to become completely unresponsive for up to an hour, not because TrueImage is using more RAM than it should, because it's not. KAV insists on using 3-4 GB of RAM while I'm making and verifying an incremental backup image of my Windows partition (which doesn't change much, the increments are usually a few hundred MB).

I refuse to buy more RAM, there's no fucking way 4 GB isn't enough for neffing.

 

[RagingBITCH]

Who cares

 

[mcvickj]

I currently have 14 tabs open in Firefox 3.0.10 and its using 220MB of memory. I have a total of 2GB installed at work.

 

[waffleironhead]

7.5/10 I could almost feel the anger, but more cursing would have improved it.

 

[krylon]

Steps for success

1. Upgrade Firefox
2. Learn to Rant
3. ???
4. STFU

 

[Lonyo]

You tried reinstalling Firefox from fresh without extensions/addons? Sounds like there is an issue with an extensions being crappy because I've never had FF break 1.5GB even when loaded with tabs.

 

[Lean L]

Want to know what doesn't leak memory? Foobar. Right now I am upconverting music, playing them through ASIO and watching visulizations @ 25MB mem usage

 

[Crusty]

Caching data != 'memory leak'

 

[dguy6789]

Firefox hasn't had a memory leak problem for me in over a year.

 

[fleshconsumed]

Mmmmm, I have seen Firefox use 1.3GB of ram on my home machine. However, that's with 4 instances open with multiple tabs each. It usually uses 100-200MB when opened first, but the usage typically creeps up over time. If I leave it overnight for a couple of days it inevitably crashes, I assume it's because it approaches 2GB limit (firefox is still a 32bit app).

 

[Billb2]

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124
Why is it acceptable for every single piece of software on the consumer market (except Google Chrome) to have horrible, seemingly unfixable RAM leaks?

To set the record straight, what you're seeing isn't a memory leak, it's just memory usage.

With a memory leak memory usage increases (even if you're not doing anything with the open programs) over time (usually a few minutes) until all memory is exhausted and the PC either freezes or crashes.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: Crusty
Caching data != 'memory leak'

Then there needs to be a cache flush button, because it is a fucking memory leak when somehow the Shockwave Flash process running under Chrome is using 72236k to display one tab of Engadget ads and four tabs of ATOT ads. I know I don't have 70 MB of ads open, otherwise these pages would've taken more than a few seconds a piece to load. Closing Engadget brings it down to 72172k, closing some Amazon tabs somehow brings Flash usage UP to 72648k, and closing more ATOT tabs makes it 77648k.

Originally posted by: waffleironhead
7.5/10 I could almost feel the anger, but more cursing would have improved it.

You know, I had a lot of f-bombs in here but I took them out because I felt they made the anger artificial. I curse regularly, when I'm not cursing something's wrong.

Originally posted by: Billb2

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124
Why is it acceptable for every single piece of software on the consumer market (except Google Chrome) to have horrible, seemingly unfixable RAM leaks?

To set the record straight, what you're seeing isn't a memory leak, it's just memory usage.

With a memory leak memory usage increases (even if you're not doing anything with the open programs) over time (usually a few minutes) until all memory is exhausted and the PC either freezes or crashes.

That's what KAV does. If an Acronis TrueImage backup is running I can slowly watch RAM usage creep up from what Folding and a bunch of background apps keep it at (under 40% in Task Manager) up to 90%, 91%, and so on until I hear the pleasant grinding away of my VelociRaptor trying to keep up with a horribly coded AV program. Avira never did this

 

[mrSHEiK124]

It took Flash 5 minutes to realize I was done with Engadget and dump everything down to 15432k. Chrome on the other hand closed the process for the tab and freed the RAM immediately.

 

[ViviTheMage]

Originally posted by: dguy6789
Firefox hasn't had a memory leak problem for me in over a year.

same here.

 

[lxskllr]

Firefox is using 226mb, with 19 tabs open, and a bunch of extensions. I've never really had any issues.

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: mcvickj
I currently have 14 tabs open in Firefox 3.0.10 and its using 220MB of memory. I have a total of 2GB installed at work.

ya, i was kind of boggled at this as well. i constantly have more than 6 tabs open and have never seen the usage go over 500mb or so.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

Its simply caching things for faster access. I paid for 4GB of memory. It best use every drop. Why would I pay for memory I'm not using?

Methinks you're bitching over nothing..

 

[Brainonska511]

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124
It took Flash 5 minutes to realize I was done with Engadget and dump everything down to 15432k. Chrome on the other hand closed the process for the tab and freed the RAM immediately.

Don't bitch about Firefox then. Bitch about Adobe's diarrhea all over the web with Flash.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

...why can pausing a DTA download send RAM usage down from 93% to 34%? Is it putting my entire fucking ISO in RAM?

 

[amdhunter]

I wish I had a RAM leak. It seems like I wasted money on having 8GB RAM.

 

[slackwarelinux]

My computer is using a total of 119mb of RAM for multiple firefox tabs, IRC, and eclipse.

FreeBSD ftw.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: slackwarelinux
My computer is using a total of 119mb of RAM for multiple firefox tabs, IRC, and eclipse.

FreeBSD ftw.

One svchost.exe is using 200 MB

 

[AstroManLuca]

It's one of your extensions. My Firefox rarely eats more than 50-100 MB of RAM, even with lots of tabs open.

 

[thescreensavers]

umm, I am running windows 7 with about 20 tabs open in firefox, and UT2004 Minimized and only using 31% of my 4gigs

 

[magomago]

8/10 I liked it.

Right now with 4 total tabs (I've only visited AT and gmail so far), I'm using 150 megs of ram. No extensions save for noscript. I noticed that gmail eats up gobs of ram. If I leave it on for a long period of time and then close it, sometimes i recover 300 megabytes lol.

I'm not bothered by it until I need it.......right now I'm running a Matlab simulation and pushing 700-800 megabytes. If it needs more, but the ram is being hogged by other apps 'caching' things...so it starts to thrash the HDD....that is when I get annoyed.