Bugs and memory hogs

Posted Jun 11, 2014 2:04 UTC (Wed) by keeperofdakeys (guest, #82635)
In reply to: Bugs and memory hogs by dashesy
Parent article: Firefox 30 released

What OS was this on? Firefox is still limited to 32-bit on Windows, which means it could never use lots of memory.

Bugs and memory hogs

Posted Jun 11, 2014 2:08 UTC (Wed) by dashesy (guest, #74652) [Link]

Fedora 20 with Cinnamon. I do not even dual boot Windows since the advent of Secure Boot, and Windows8 is a torture to touch.

Bugs and memory hogs

Posted Jun 12, 2014 18:44 UTC (Thu) by NightMonkey (subscriber, #23051) [Link] (2 responses)

But isn't each process limited to a 2GB 'box' of memory that can be exhausted, making that application's performance suffer should it near that limit?

Bugs and memory hogs

Posted Jun 14, 2014 2:49 UTC (Sat) by salimma (subscriber, #34460) [Link] (1 responses)

Not by default on 64-bit Linux, though you can set such limits yourself. I've certainly seen Firefox (pre-29) gobble up over 3 GB of RAM before. It got so bad I ran it through a script that'd terminate it if it reaches over 2.5G of RAM usage.

Bugs and memory hogs

Posted Jun 14, 2014 4:43 UTC (Sat) by NightMonkey (subscriber, #23051) [Link]

The post I was replying to referenced Win32. I knew about Linux/64-bit. :)