[gentoo-user] Firefox out of memory

[gentoo-user] Firefox out of memory

[Willie Wong]

Hum, I came home today to find the firefox instance that has been
running for 3 or 4 days killed. Apparently it was an out of memory
thing. Dmesg gave the following

oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x1d2
DMA per-cpu:
cpu 0 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1
cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1
Normal per-cpu:
cpu 0 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16
cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16
HighMem per-cpu: empty

Free pages:        5084kB (0kB HighMem)
Active:59562 inactive:60153 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0 free:1271 slab:4128 mapped:118884 pagetables:1131
DMA free:2068kB min:88kB low:108kB high:132kB active:4656kB inactive:4340kB present:16384kB pages_scanned:10016 all_unreclaimable? yes
lowmem_reserve[]: 0 495 495
Normal free:3016kB min:2800kB low:3500kB high:4200kB active:233592kB inactive:236272kB present:507136kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0
HighMem free:0kB min:128kB low:160kB high:192kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0
DMA: 1*4kB 0*8kB 1*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 2068kB
Normal: 94*4kB 8*8kB 1*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 3016kB
HighMem: empty
Swap cache: add 501655, delete 501655, find 340263/374434, race 0+0
Free swap  = 0kB
Total swap = 787176kB
Out of Memory: Killed process 14074 (firefox-bin).

Can anyone tell me what that means? This is the first time that
firefox has actually been killed by the kernel for going out of
memory, and there have been times when I left a firefox window open
for much longer (weeks at times). 

Thanks,

W
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Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox out of memory

[elinar]

On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 17:36, Willie Wong wrote:
> Hum, I came home today to find the firefox instance that has been
> running for 3 or 4 days killed. Apparently it was an out of memory
> thing.

> Can anyone tell me what that means? This is the first time that
> firefox has actually been killed by the kernel for going out of
> memory, and there have been times when I left a firefox window open
> for much longer (weeks at times).

Firefox is pretty good. but in the past I've had a similar problem, running 
out of memory, with lots of tabs being opend/closed and several windows. At 
the time there was a memory link relating to the tabs, and I'm not sure thats 
been fixed yet. Maybee bugzilla can help...or try

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