Firefox Crashes computer with Memory Leak

When I'm viewing a chain of FLV (flash) videos on the web, if I don't close and reopen the browser regularly, it BLUE SCREENS my laptop.... well not blue screens, as much as it forces a Memory Purge then a full shutdown... so .. Black Screens?
This isn't good for my computer, and I've isolated the solo cause of this incident to Firefox itself. (tested with no plugins etc..)

Awww.. poodles.. looks like it duplicated itself somehow.. the request that is...
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/809016
is the one I'm going to be referring to... and I don't see a way to delete this older one...

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I typically keep many windows with several tabs open. It is possible that this causes more crashes since the number of pages multiplies any effect most users with less pages/tabs would experience. I have been having problems with Firefox crashing Using the windows task manager I have looked into this issue monitoring lots of variables. Bottom line the crash is caused by increasing memory usage possibly caused by the flash add on which is doing many IO reads on at least one offending page/tab. Could some sites be using flash to read from my disk without permission and there is a memory leak in either flash of the code the sites uses? I have searched the web for a task manager like add-on for Firefox tabs that would allow me to determine the offending page/tab/add-on/extension. It seems like a great idea which has not been implemented. Since I am a developer I would be happy to implement, but would like some guidance since my knowledge of your product is only at the user level.

There is currently about:memory page which is being actively developed. A "task manager"of sorts is also in the works AFAIK. If you want to help out, your best bet is to find the applicable bug in Bugzilla. If you have the coding skills I can help get you in touch with a mentor - just let me know.

What is the best way to deal with memory leak issue in sql server 2008 R2

What is the best way to deal with memory leak issue in sql server 2008 R2.

What is the best way to deal with memory leak issue in sql server 2008 R2.
I have heard of memory leak in OS that too because of some external application or rouge drivers SQL server 2008 R2 if patched to latest SP and CU ( may be if required) does not leaks memory.
Are you in opinion that since SQL is taking lot of memory and then not releasing it is a memory leak.If so this is not a memory leak but default behavior .You need to set proper value for max server memory in sp_configure to limit buffer pool usage.However
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Any specific issue you are facing
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Firefox 6.0 has memory leak

Firefox 6.0 (release) has a memory leak.
Tested with 5 windows and 43 pages loaded and left overnight, it crashed after several hours. Able to fully repro this every time.
I left it for 10 mins after all pages loaded. I opened Task Manager and I can see the Memory (Private Working Set) increasing every few seconds.

Well I'm using 7 beta and my memory usage is just short of 600,000k with plugin container using another 220,000k. There is a massive problem with this!

T61 with memory leak on XP for driver battc.sys

Hi
I have an issue with XP where the battc.sys module that is part of Windows XP and responsible for the kernel side of monitoring the battery status. This module continually leaks memory until I have no more kernel paged resources left and programs start to fail on my laptop.
I raised a support case for this with Microsoft and after some investigation and upgrading to the latest T61 power drivers that were released a few days ago on the Lenovo site, MS support told me it is a fault of the T61 and that I would need to disable Microsoft APCI support to stop this memory leak from occuring and to take the issue up with Lenovo.
I have used the verifier tool to confirm that it is the Windows XP SP3 battc.sys memory module leaking.
I am running the latest T61 drivers and fully patch with MS drivers on SP3.
As MS have told me it is the fault of the T61 I am posting this issue here.
Thanks
Stephen

It is memory available to the kernelwhich itself does not show under a process in task manager as far as I am aware (unles it is taken account as part of the system process).
The best way to measure the available kernel memory space available is by using sysinternals procexp.
You need to download procexp and also install the windows debugging tools from Microsoft. Then in procexp set the "Options > Configure Symbols : Debughlp.dll path" to the new debughlp.dll installed with your debu tools and set the symbols path to srv*c:\Symbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols
Then you can choose in procexp "View > System Information" and see the used and total paged and non-paged kernel memory space.
poolmon helps monitor all the symbols that are taking up this memory and verifier lets you drill down to the exact module and the changes in memory for a module that is occuring.
Here are two really good links on it
http://blogs.msdn.com/ntdebugging/archive/2006/12/18/Understanding-Pool-Consumption-and-Event-ID_3A0...
http://blogs.msdn.com/ntdebugging/archive/2008/05/08/tracking-down-mmst-paged-pool-usage.aspx
In my poolmon i notice that Mmst and battc are taking alot of memory after my computer has been running for some time. Mmst being high is normal but battc should not continually be growing as it is which is why I raised the case to MS but they want verification it is not a Lenovo issue.

How to deal with Memory Leaks, that are caused by Binding

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import javafx.beans.property.SimpleStringProperty;
import javafx.beans.property.StringProperty;
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import javafx.scene.control.Button;
import javafx.scene.layout.VBox;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
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So every time the updateItem method is called a new ContextMenu is created, which binds some properties, but the old context menus remain in memory.
I guess there could be many more example.
How can I deal with it?

I've dealt with this situation and created a Jira issue for it, but I also have a work-around that is a bit unwieldy but works. I'll share it with you.
The bug that deals with this (in part atleast): http://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-20616
The solution is to use weak invalidation listeners, however they are a bit of a pain to use as you cannot do it with something simplistic as "bindWeakly"... and you need to keep a reference around to the wrapped listener otherwise it will just get garbage collected immediately (as it is only weakly referenced). Some very odd bugs can surface if weak listeners disappear randomly because you forgot to reference them :)
Anyway, see this code below, it shows you some code that is called from a TreeCell's updateItem method (I've wrapped it in some more layers in my program, but it is essentially the same as an updateItem method):
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I've tested this extensively and it solves the problem of Cells keeping references to objects with much longer life cycles (in my case, the MediaNode passed in has a longer lifecycle than the cells and so it is important to bind weakly to it). Before this would create huge memory leaks (crashing my program within a minute if you kept refreshing the Tree)... now it survives hours atleast and the Heap usage stays in a fixed range which means it is correctly able to collect all garbage).
The code for WeakBinder is below (you can consider it public domain, so use it as you see fit, or write your own):
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import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import javafx.beans.InvalidationListener;
import javafx.beans.Observable;
import javafx.beans.WeakInvalidationListener;
import javafx.beans.property.Property;
import javafx.beans.value.ObservableValue;
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Solution for addons with memory leaks needed! (check / mark them)

The Problem with Firefox is that there are a vary of plugins from other developers, but it could not be that users have to live with growing memory usage or memory leaks by these addons. This gives also Firefox itself a bad impression and I think there should be a solution to stop the trend because as a user I can not always identify what's the problem now and why the firefox-process gives no memory free but it makes firefox partially unusable if I have to open more than a few tabs.
In my opinion also popular extensions that are used by a lot of people still have memory leaks or even the addon-developer does not know that his addon has one.
Is there no possibility that firefox helps, that addons can't produce so many memory leaks or otherwise Mark them in the Addon repository if they have leaks or memory problems?!

Being a rookie, I thought memory leaks weren't
something that java developers had to worry about.No managing memory is what you don't have to worry about.
That doesn't mean that your code still can't have memory leaks in it.
Now I'm starting to get java.lang.outOfMemory
Exceptions. My application just keeps eating up more
more ram until.... kaboom!The garbage collector can only clean up stuff that is no longer being 'used'. If you hold references to stuff that you no longer use, then you are creating a leak.
>
I think I get the ram back when the java app exits.
So I don't know, if this is technically a memory leak
or not. But It's a problem; Is there some way to
explicitly call the java garbage collector and then
recover from a OutOfMemoryException?
As I pointed out above, the garbage collector collects garbage. It isn't garbage until there are no more references. Leaks are caused by holding onto references even though they are no longer needed. The GC can't do anything about that.
I would appreciate any responce. (even if it's just a
one liner)
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DAQmxCreateTask
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DAQmxCfgSampClkTiming
DAQmxStartTask
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DAQmxClearTask
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mfrazer

Mfrazer,
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Old information:
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