Firefox 4 still suffering from a serious memory leak, ends up using 2GB of RAM on 5 tabs and a few plugins?!!

Why does even Firefox 4, which was supposed to have this issue fixed by now, still suffer from memory leaks?
I opened up 4-5 tabs, enabled Firebug to tweak a few pages, and an hour later Firefox usage is up to 2GB of RAM?
What a...?!
Now, seriously, if you run to suggest that it is most likely due to add-ons and that I should disable them all and start Firefox in safe mode, let me just cut you off right there and ask you this - out of millions of people who downloaded this browser, who the hell uses it without any plugins and/or in safe mode?
If you're gonna make a browser, make it so that it's lean and free of these issues to begin with, out of the box AND in case an addon or something else is added to it - can't they protect the core files and libraries from being victims to this, in case the addons are to blame?
And in case it's a Firefox issue to start off with, seriously, can you get a dedicated developer to look into this alone and get it fixed, once and for all?

I have six tabs open and generally have 3-5. It's been sitting here since last night. I'm using 296Mb ram which is high for me on Windows. My wife and son both use FF4 also and, having just checked, are between 210 and 268Mb respectively.
No one I know ever complains about high memory usage in FF4 and neither have I experienced it since FF2.5 when memory leaks any user would notice were all fixed.
So my advice is the same. If your add-ons aren't causing you problems, fix your system.

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2014.2 Crash by scrubbing - serious memory leak? (screenshot attached)

Hello. I've bought one year premiere pro cc plan. After upgrate from 2014.1 to 2014.2 I suffer with many crashes a day. I can't roll back, because I am in the middle of the feature film edit and new files are not opened by 2014.1
The most anoying crash is about memory use growth.
First - my system and sequence specs:
I have 48gb ram, intel i73930k processor, 4TB main drive and 3x250SSD drives for scratch disks. My Gpu is 2 x nvidia gtx 780 (3gb ram each). I work in 4k workspace and with uhd timeline 2.35 : 1 ratio. (3840x1628)
Second - how to crash.
I open the pproj file (about 8mbytes in size). It is a full feature film, i edit it in 3 parts for better performance. My main codec is cineform, both for HD previews and final 4K encoding.
Then I move playhead over any clip already rendered with preview (HD - mpeg or cineform).
Then I hold left mouse button and I start to scrub playhead left/right randomly along timeline, the problem unfolds: ram usage starts to go up, after some time of scrubbing it hits the ceiling and premiere crashes (along with eventual other apps opened as firefox).
It seems like premiere is registering every displayed frame in memory, even if it is already rendered as preview. And there is no limit set for doing this, so it overflows and crash.
As you see on the picture, in preferences there is 8GB reserved for other apps, and optimization for memory set.
Scrubbing over non-rendered clips makes ram eating even worse, crash occurs earlier.
I wonder - do you people have this similar problem? Could someone reproduce this inside any larger project (30 minutes of standard movie edit).
I would like to find solution, because I cant allow for so many crashes during serious production workflow.
nl

I'm having the same problem too.
I've been posting my issues on another post entitled, "Just spent $7000. on new custom computer and PremiereProcc2014 crashing". (see my NEW profile computer specs as of two weeks ago)
I've been experiencing about 25 crashes in an 8 hour period. Some after 1/2 hour and others back to back crashes.
I didn't even think of why it was crashing until I called support, whereas they took over my computer and showed me that even when timeline is PAUSED, YES EVEN JUST PAUSED, we watched the RAM clime and clime to the ceiling until Premiere crashed.
It's so frigg'in frustrating that people here are complaining and there seem to be absolutely no talk about this issue. It's probably the cause of many Premiere issues, in my humble opinion.
Strangely enough, the tech fixed the problem (but this has been happening to me often and even with my older computer). Anyway he stopped several Adobe related running programs in the background, and took my timeline to a new project.
Basically, I'm not sure exactly what he did to solve the problem, and sadly I suspect it will return as it always has done so.
One strange note is that he reset all my preferences back to the defaults. I'm talking about maybe 15 presets that I have including a handful of changed key-strokes (to my liking), and simple things like "double-click opens in same folder" and "don't replay timeline after rendering" and "don't go to beginning of project after end of play-line" and changed around my user interphase to my liking.
These type of customization shouldn't cause Memory Leaks? I just don't get it.

FIrefox betrayed by its own "developers"? Memory Leak Work Around at Bottom

Firefox SUCKS memory and holds onto it. Try this test: Open it, leave ONE tab, open and sit back and and watch the damn thing crash.
Funny, as soon as the project people started getting so much money from Google that they had to restructure to avoid losing its non-profit status Firefox developed an insatiable thirst for RAM that has only gotten worse in the YEARS since. They won't fix the problem, they won't acknowledge the problem, the ignore every post about it . . . . So, is killing FF's user base the price for the continued Google money that they so quickly whored themselves out for? Has FF been run by Google these last few years? They certainly couldn't wreck any better.
Posted by Wahoo at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/939920
"Using ADD-ons to remove memory leak. Mozilla says to remove add-ons to fix leak. Firefox sucks memory. it always has and always will. Nobody wants to admit it exsists on the Mozilla side must less fix it. Firewalls , etc do not cause the leak. You can remove all your ad-ons and leave firefox open and it will suck memory. Every tab you open drains your memory and continues to climb without opening any more. You can then close all your tabs and Firefox will not release the memory. Just fix it guys, it cant be that difficult "
Posteby Onmicide at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/939920
"There is a way to stay on top of the memory usage:
Go to about:memory and scroll to the bottom. There are buttons there for garbage collection and minimizing memory usage. "

Please try this two minute test.
'''Create a new Firefox profile'''
A new profile will have your system-installed plugins (e.g., Flash) and extensions (e.g., security suite toolbars), but no themes, other extensions, or other customizations. It also should have completely fresh settings databases and a fresh cache folder.
Exit Firefox and start up in the Profile Manager using Start > search box (or Run):
firefox.exe -P
Any time you want to switch profiles, exit Firefox and return to this dialog.
You'll click the Create Profile button. I recommend using the default location suggested, and to avoid data loss, not re-using any existing folder. Then start Firefox in the new profile you created.
What happens with memory usage with the two default tabs open, or another tab of your choice?
When returning to the Profile Manager, you might be tempted to use the Delete Profile button. But... it's a bit too easy to accidentally delete your "real" profile, so I recommend resisting the temptation. If you do want to clean up later, I suggest making a backup of all your profiles first in case something were to go wrong.

Firefox is still running but does not show up in "task master" so it can be closed down and re-started?

1. Sometimes Firefox displays a message "Firefox is still running" but there is no evidence that this is true.
2. But, Firefox does not show up in "control-alternate-delete" to bring up Task Master in Windows 7.
3. There does not seem to be any means to stop Firefox and to re-start Firefox without a complete Re-start of the PC.
4. The mouse still works and the PC responds but there is no response from Firefox except the message "Firefox is still running..... etc.
5. How to stop Firefox, shutdown Firefox without a complete reboot/restart?

Way too complicated to solve the problem of "firefox is already running ....etc." and there must be a more simple solution to this problem which occurs once in awhile.
It seems to me that Mozilla developers can find a better solution and one that allows control-alternate-delete to fix the problem.
Otherwise, it is just resort to the old reboot solution.

Firefox 3.6.13 has a terrible memory leak

When I first start up Firefox it consumes < 100MB. After a few hours of browsing and other work it's over a gig. If I leave it up all day it's almost 2 gig - and my PC has only 2GB, which means everything starts paging like crazy. The only way to release it is to shut down all instances of the firefox.exe process. And when you do that it takes a long time because firefox has to release all that memory back to the system.
People are complaining about this all over the web and some people say "it's not firefox, it's the add-ons" but that's a cop-out because it's the firefox.exe process that's taking the memory. This means firefox provides the sandbox for the add-ons to run in so it can control their resource allocations.

I have also noticed this memory leak. To be sure it wasn't my extensions, I launched Firefox with an profile with no extension. The memory leak was still very much present.

LV memory leak - How to use windows API SetProcessWorkingSetSize (from Kernel32.dll)

Hi fellow LV'ers
Okay - this is a bit tricky, but i'll try and explain the problem, then ask for the solution, because it may be that someone knows a better way to deal with this.. might get a bit long, sorry - if a solution comes up this will enable all of us to make more memory efficient LV code so please read on..
Here is the deal:
When building even a very simple LV executable, looking at the windows task manager will yield a rather large amount of memory allocated for such a small program - and the only way to free this up is by physically clicking the windows minimize button, then suddenly the amount drops to only a few MB and upon maximizing the window again the memory consumption will increase somewhat again, but for a simple VI build to an exe this move may change the consumption from +70MB to less than 15 MB.. This is irregardless of the code you put in the VI, so no coding example in this post as it is how LV works - you can even test it with the development environment - look at the task mgr and check LabVIEW's memory consumption, minimze ALL open NI windows incl project explorer etc, and you will see a significant decrease in memory usage even after maximizing again.. This has annoyed me since day one, but since RAM is a near zero cost these days it is not something I stay awake at night to think about.. However - I have moved into the "publish to web" tools now, wanting to do a remote monitoring part for my application for my customers to experience increased usability from the software i sell them..
All is well, publishing is really easy (i use the monitor function, NOT the embeded, as customers need not have Labview RunTimeEngine installed, because they might look at it from a non RTE supported platform such as a mobilephone web browser)
Everything is working fine also for the build application. However - I have noticed that once users start to remote monitor the running application - memory consumption of the running LV application starts to increase - and it keeps doing so - to such an extend that you can drain the computer complete and run off the cliff with a windows error... This is off course not very productive for me, being specialized in measurement applications that usually runs for a long period of time - I initially thought that I had done some poor programming in the VI used to display on the webpage - but it turns out that I can reproduce this behaviour with a simple boolean on an empty front panel..
NI support has been informed, and they admit there is a problem, but so far solutions from them has been a bit too exotic for my taste, and thus I'm seeking the help of fellow LV programmers...
You see - The method to solve the increasing memory consumption, is the exact same as mentioned above..minimize the application running with the "minimize" button and all memory will be freed, as soon as you maximize the application and users are viewing it remotely, the memory usage raises again, and history repeats... As previously mentioned, minimizing the window via normal LV calls to property nodes does not yield the same result, nor does a request deallocation of a VI(When you profile a project, there are no VI's increasing in memory, it is the LV process it self doing it)
After many many hours googling I stumbled upon this:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=293215
I believe trimming the process with SetProcessWorkingSetSize would solve this problem, and now I would really like to be able to do this in my program, so that users are not forced to minimize the program every X hour depending on their system size...
However - I have absolutely NO experience in calling windows API from LV, i need someone with that knowledge to provide an example of how to call this.. I've looked at examples on how to do calls to windows API - there is an example in this forum with some llb's in it, and I have gained a fair understanding of how parameters are passed between the calls, but none of those include the "hProcess" handle that is apparently needed for this specific winAPI call to work - Anyone in this forum with the knowledge on how to obtain this handle from a VI, if at all possible, and could provide an example VI for me to use - or even better , someone with the knowledge of how to do this within LV it self??
Your help is much appreciated
Best Regards
Jacob
LV8.6.1 patch something
Win XP
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Hi Enrico
Finally I can give something to the community that has given me so much :-)
The "official" statement is that "yes we know it is a problem".. Not sure what that will do to the future..
I have the problem on 8.6.1 as well - and in fact it is a general LV problem, that I first time reported to NI with LV8.2 as I was pissed by the fact that even the smallest exe file would consume + 50MB of memory until you manually minimized the window. Well - thanks to the feedback from Cosmin I seem to have solved the problem.
I most warn that having started to "empty process" once in a while has led to occasional program crashes in the lethal "app.exe performed an illegal action and is closed" windows dialog - however what I did was to move the webserver to a seperate exe file and then communicate the data that I want to use via datasocket in a cluster.. It works like a charm and I simply stall the single thread that the webserver is running when ever the empty process is called and I have not seen a crash since then.. (the initial implementation was done in the main app with 4 parallel loops running, and I guess that was a disaster waiting to happen)
Either way - what I have done is made a VI that at a user defined interval calls the empty process, simply by getting the .exe name from the task manager of the calling program - it is simple and very effective. I call it every 5 minutes - needless to say that flushing too often will most likely kill performance of the system. I have not noticed problems with VM - are you sure you are not storing large arrays or moving around copies of data not used frequently?
For future reference to this forum, it is attached here including the .dll required to call - it is a LV8.6.1 file as I have not had the time to yet again test every single function of my program for new problems that could occur with upgrading to LV2009
I hope this solves your problem..
best regards
Jacob
www.10EaZy.com
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Memory leak when I use function with bstr_t type

Hello,
I use Visual C++ 6 and TestStand 3.1.
I use the tool: Purify from Rational Instruments to detect memory leak in my code.
When I use in my code, functions from the TestStand API using bstr_t types: GetValString, GetType... memory leaks appear.
Do you have an idea to solve this problem?
Thanks

Breizh,
Etes vous sur que le problèmes soit lié au type bstr_r ?
Pouvez vous me faire parvenir un exemple de code mettant en oeuvre la fuite mémoire?
Raphaël T.
NI FRANCE
Cordialement,
Raphael T

Easy to produce - Memory Leak in JVM Using thread

I was just debugging the problem with our server and got this error (not from the original code, I reproduced it with small code)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: unable to create new native thread
at java.lang.Thread.start0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Thread.start(Unknown Source)
at SomeObject.resursiveThreadGeneratorMethod(ThreadRecursionLeak.java:12
at ClientThread.run(ThreadRecursionLeak.java:27)
it is just a simple program generating thread recursively with a lock on an object
import java.lang.Runnable;
import java.lang.Thread;
//     <<Objec/Monitor Class>>
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               if(k<=0)
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//     <<Thread Class>>
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               SomeObject someObject=new SomeObject();
               Thread thread=new Thread(new ClientThread(someObject));
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is there any way I can monitor JVM memory status (programatically), kill those threads leading to memory leak and send notification to the system admin.
We run JVM 1.4 on the server and need to address this issue as we do not have control over the code that can be submitted to the server, we just do some checks and then let it run on the servers.
Our main requirement is to keep JVM alive and kill all those code and report them.
Message was edited by:
rajanikant_malviya

You can monitor the JVM with the
[url=http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/jvmpi/i
ndex.html]JVMPI if you're using the Sun JVM.This is native code that basically gets
notified anytime the JVM does something
interesting.
However, you're going to have a very difficult time
catching code that does what the code you show does.
I'm not sure I understand your environment - you
allow people to submit code and you run it? Are you
running it in the same JVM as your server? That
seems like a huge issue. A simple System.exit()
code will take down your server.
Let us know some more details.
We are actually having a portal through witch users can submit their code, witch are basically utility codes for different operations teams.
we then provide a way to schedule them.
At the background, we are having 6 (Win) servers where at each server we are having 20 to 25 users on different ports (managed by our application) running there own JVMs. When a schedule is met we just invoke a servlet (on any free port) and pass code id (stored in DB). And this servlet is responsible for compilation and exicution of the code (We just use Runtime to fork this new process).
I don't know, but is there any way through witch I can monitor this process and restrict to generate threads recursively???

Finding Memory leaks in C using Visual Studio 2013

I am using Visual Studio 2013, and taking a course in C programming and we started
talking about memory bugs detaction, in particular memory leaks, and how to detect them using Valgrind on Linux.
I want to know if there is a way to detect such memory leaks using VS 2013. I tried searching online but it just leads to lots of articles and blogs and msdn posts and blogs with lots of words like dump files, and analyzing them, etc which is weird
because:
1) It sounds so complex, convoluted and unintuitive it is actually hard to comprehend it.
2) The main reason this is weird is due to the fact that VS is the most advanced IDE around and Microsoft spends so much money on in, yet from what I have read it seems that there is no simple way to use VS to detect memory leaks
- certainly no way that's as simple as Valgrind where I only have to compile the program and run the command valgrind -leaks-check=yes ProgramName
and it simply prints to me all location it thinks there is a memory leak and describes the error (like not freeing memory after allocating it with malloc hence having "dead" memory after the program finishes, or accessing memory that's out of
the array bounds)
So my question is how to use VS 2013 in order to achieve the same results and to find out First in high level if there are memory leaks in the program, and Second - to detect in a simple manner where those leaks are- preferably without involving dump files
(not that I know how to use them anyway in VS).

Hi MicrosoftLaw,
Thanks for your post.
Based on your issue, if you want to check if there are memory leaks in the C program from this VS2013. I suggest you could try to find Memory Leaks Using the CRT Library, for more information:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x98tx3cf.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
In addition, I find a similar thread about this issue, please you refer the Dusty's suggestion to check this issue.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/45627/how-do-you-detect-avoid-memory-leaks-in-your-unmanaged-code
I did some research about this issue, I found that the Visual Leak Detector extension tool is a free, robust, open-source memory leak detection system for Visual C++. So if possible, I suggest you could try to use the Visual Leak Detector extension
tool to find the memory leak for Visual C/ C++ program.
https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/7c40a5d8-dd35-4019-a2af-cb1403f5939c
However, if you have any issue about how to use this Visual Leak Detector extension tool to find the memory leak for C program. I suggest you could directly to write a review to this REVIEW tab in Visual Leak Detector site.
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I want to find my iPod cuz I lost recently but I saw pictures from it iPod the person who is using it take pictures whit it. And I have my acount in both devices I just want it back

I need yo find my iPod I lost it and Im usin an iPhone and I saw pictures from my iPod cuz I have my acount in both devices and stream in my iPod irse on so I just want how I can find this person

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Serious Memory Leak Problem. Needs to be resolved ASAP

Ok, I have been researching this problem All Night and I cannot figure it out!
I am Running Final Cut Studio 2 Final Cut Pro 6. I Edited a piece Today and I have been trying to REnder it for 3 hours. I have cleared out the preferences. I have gone through all of the picture files, and I have deleted the Render Files and started over, No matter what, I watch in the activity monitor as it bleeds the memory and stops withj an out of memory error message. I would really appreciate if anyone has another solution i could try

I don't think the extensions are the problem. As David said If any of those images were saved in a color mode other than RGB, you'll have trouble. This usually only occurs when you put the shots in the timeline but you'll want to get rid of them from the browser as well just to be sure.
i basically imported a disc of random pics at the beginning of the project
I assume that you copied the contents of the disk to your hard drive first otherwise FCP will be forever reading those files from the CD.
rh

Serious memory leak in Safari 5.1.2 for Lion

Safari keeps on using memory and frees up almost nothing even after I close the web page.

You didn't REALLY believe they FINALLY fixed the leak, did you?
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Why do I get a memory leak when I use the Write Data Storage VI in a loop

I have a large application that I am collecting various data points from. For the most part they are simple scalar values that need to be logged on a regular basis. I was attempting to use the new TDM files and the storage VI's I though everything was working until I looked at the taskmanager and noticed that when the logging loop ran my CPU eventually went to 100% and the process memory grew from about 80,000K to 100,000K and eventually locks up the system.
I am using a state machine arch.
State 1 - open file (open create) mode)
State 2 - Write Channel Group Properties
State 3 - Loop writes 24 distinct data points to a TDM files in append mode
State 3 - Repeats [creating new rows of the same 24 data point (wait time about 1 sec)]
State 4 - Close file on exit.
Any help on this problem would be appreciated.

The way I see it, it should be this way.
Message Edited by Pana-man on 09-30-2005 08:15 PM
Message Edited by Pana-man on 09-30-2005 08:18 PM
Paul <--Always Learning!!!
sense and simplicity.
Browse my sample VIs?
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Memory leak/overload when looping by index over a large query and updating each DB record

I am importing a CSV file into a temporary table and then running a select query that joins my actual database table with the temporary table, looking for any changes in the data. If changes exist, the select query is looped from 1 to #recordCount# and an update is applied to each record via cfquery. It runs very quickly (much more quickly than looping the query itself), but my memory spikes and overloads after about 1500 updates are completed. I need to be able to do upwards of 20000 at a time, without killing my system. I have tried manually setting the runtime garbage collection to trigger after X number of loops, but that doesn't seem to help. I am running CF8. See below for loop example:
<cfloop from="1" to="#updatedRecordsQuery.recordCount#" index="a">
<cftry>
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                    UPDATE
                        CI
                    SET
                        firstname = <cfqueryparam cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar" value="#updatedRecordsQuery.firstname[a]#" />,
                        lastname = <cfqueryparam cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar" value="#updatedRecordsQuery.lastname[a]#" />,
                        etc, for about 15 various fields
                    FROM
                        client_info CI
                    WHERE
                        CI.client_id = <cfqueryparam cfsqltype="cf_sql_integer" value="#updatedRecordsQuery.client_id[a]#" />
                </cfquery>
                <cfcatch type="database">
                    <cfset local.updateErrorList = listappend(local.updateErrorList,updatedRecordsQuery.client_id[a]) />
                    <cfset local.error = true />
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</cfloop>

I would suggest to use select update instead of looping over query object and update each row one-by-one.
Procedure:
- Insert your CSV data into temp table.
- Use a select update SQL query to update the changed data instead of looping over a select query.
Example:
UPDATE
   Table
SET
   Table.col1 = other_table.col1,
   Table.col2 = other_table.col2
FROM
   Table
INNER JOIN
other_table
ON
   Table.id = other_table.id
NOTE: You can put all your scripts in a Procedure.

Can I download Purchased music from my iPhone to my wife's using my user id in her iPhone and then login back with her id?

We both have different ids, I want to download the songs I've purchased in my iPhone using my id to her iPhone. I was thinking to login using my id into her iTunes in her phone and download them and then re-login using her's. Does that work? Does that keep all the songs once I re-login using her's?
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You can use home share on the pc.
iTunes: Setting up Home Sharing on your computer

Firefox 4 still suffering from a serious memory leak, ends up using 2GB of RAM on 5 tabs and a few plugins?!!

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