Why does memory usage for FireFox go up so much?

[Ns1]

Opening up FF, going to task manager -> processes FF uses 55mb

Going to ATOT, that amount creeps to 76mb

on a small loadout (3 tabs) it went all the way up to 225mb

is this normal?!

 

[lxskllr]

All browsers use a lot of memory. That's normal.

 

[Matthiasa]

Whats the size of a standard image and page, now times that by the number you have seen in well everything...
Most likely it's caching everything.

EDIT:
I'm at ~ 260MB with 12 tabs, some forums some search stuff some 100+ page books.

 

[trmiv]

Chrome is currently using around 575 MB of memory on my machine. Yes I have an ass load of tabs open. Chrome opens each tab in a separate process though.

 

[Ns1]

i guess it's this 1gb of fucking ram that's killing me then. FUCK.

 

[Patranus]

Because its free.

 

[lxskllr]

i guess it's this 1gb of fucking ram that's killing me then. FUCK.

How is it killing you? What negative effects are you seeing? What O/S?

 

[Ns1]

gmail/atot/imdb = 176mb of usage


what's killing me is my work computer multitasks like a fucking dog. changed pagefile to 3gb so we'll see if that does anything.

(winxp)

 

[lxskllr]

1gb is pretty slim if you're doing a lot of multitasking. Increasing the pagefile won't likely fix it. That's where the slowness is coming from. Data's getting paged out, and the hd makes recovery slow. What's your peak memory usage in TaskManager? If the peak is greater than your physical memory, you're hitting the page file, and that's why it's slow.

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

because you touch yourself at night.

 

[vshah]

2gb sticks are like $20 bucks now...go for it.

 

[Linflas]

Because its free.

So is IE and right now it is using about 1/3 the amount of memory FF is on my machine. FF seems to always use a lot of memory for some reason, maybe it is the plugins?

 

[Ns1]

2gb sticks are like $20 bucks now...go for it.

work computer.

 

[Ns1]

So is IE and right now it is using about 1/3 the amount of memory FF is on my machine. FF seems to always use a lot of memory for some reason, maybe it is the plugins?

closing out both programs and going to our internal homepage:

FF uses 106mb
IE uses 56mb

 

[lxskllr]

So is IE and right now it is using about 1/3 the amount of memory FF is on my machine. FF seems to always use a lot of memory for some reason, maybe it is the plugins?

I think IE obfuscates memory usage by hiding it within other shared processes. I don't think TaskManager gives an accurate accounting in that regard.

 

[rcpratt]

FF is kind of a hog. I'm at 375 MB, but I do have 37 tabs open...

 

[her209]

My Firefox instance right now is using 404MB. I chalk it up to the add-ons / extensions.

 

[Capt Caveman]

FF is a resource hog. The thing I dislike the most is it's high use of the pagefile. Even with 4gb of ram and 2gb of it free, it will still use 1gb+ of my pagefile, slowing things down.

I've researched the issue, made some config changes to stop it from using the pagefile, I've installed memory apps to stop it from using the pagefile and using all of these methods, it still uses the pagefile.

 

[arkcom]

1,114,604k here.

 

[Ns1]

FF is a resource hog. The thing I dislike the most is it's high use of the pagefile. Even with 4gb of ram and 2gb of it free, it will still use 1gb+ of my pagefile, slowing things down.

I've researched the issue, made some config changes to stop it from using the pagefile, I've installed memory apps to stop it from using the pagefile and using all of these methods, it still uses the pagefile.

maybe that's why increasing my pagefile helped so much - it sounded like it was writing to the HD constantly.

FF is kind of a hog. I'm at 375 MB, but I do have 37 tabs open...

i try to stop after 10....

 

[Capt Caveman]

maybe that's why increasing my pagefile helped so much - it sounded like it was writing to the HD constantly.

You only have 1gb of ram? How old is your pc? Ram is cheap, buy some!

 

[Ns1]

You only have 1gb of ram? How old is your pc? Ram is cheap, buy some!

as stated numerous times, it's a work machine.

3ghz with only 1gb ram...

 

[Capt Caveman]

as stated numerous times, it's a work machine.

3ghz with only 1gb ram...

Request for them to put in more ram. I used to only have 1gb in my laptop, I asked them to add more since I multi-task with a lot of apps open and have so little memory was causing problems. Well, they slapped a 2gb stick of memory in the other slot.

 

[Ns1]

Request for them to put in more ram. I used to only have 1gb in my laptop, I asked them to add more since I multi-task with a lot of apps open and have so little memory was causing problems. Well, they slapped a 2gb stick of memory in the other slot.

i read the tech manual. odds of getting a ram upgrade = none

just gotta wait until lease runs out on this machine.

 

[gevorg]

All browsers needs lots of memory to cache all these tabs. But the shitty part about Firefox is that even after you close most of the tabs, the memory usage will still be like 300MB. Chrome is better is this regard.