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Memory leakage in Firefox 4/Linux

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fauve
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Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0

Firefox 4 begins swapping pages to disk after just an hour of usage or less, slowing down the system (a modest: P4, 256MB memory). It seems like a common problem across all platforms. 3.6 was fine.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0 Firefox 4 begins swapping pages to disk after just an hour of usage or less, slowing down the system (a modest: P4, 256MB memory). It seems like a common problem across all platforms. 3.6 was fine.

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cor-el
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256 MB is not much memory these days.
Can't you add more memory, so you have at least 512 MB or better 1 GB?

If Firefox uses too much memory and the OS start swapping then you can try to close and reopen Firefox to clear all used memory and start fresh again.

fauve
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Will do if I can still find RDRAM in Ukraine :) Linux is not that memory-hungry. Developers shoud check it anyway. I am sure they will. And thank you for assistance! (My English is a bit rusty.)