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Oh this is an interesting workaround. Didn't know you can limit memory to processes. Ubuntu doesn't handle out of memory at all. The whole system just locks up
by geokon 6y ago
Oh this is an interesting workaround. Didn't know you can limit memory to processes. Ubuntu doesn't handle out of memory at all. The whole system just locks up and freezes (at least on 20.04)
Like you say, it doesn't release memory so I need to restart periodically. If I forget then I need to do a hard restart when the system locks up (sometimes loosing work :/)
It seems strange.. it used to handle hundred of open tabs just fine and now it's completely crippled. My guess is that in making the browser faster they cache more and more - and Firefox devs prolly run on fancy machines with tons of RAM.
- hawski 6y agoI think Firefox devs restart it many times a day during development, so they are not as affected. I think with 24GB of RAM I am at least on the edge of tons of memory qualifier and it still seems not enough after few weeks or intensive usage. Nevertheless it's baffling for me not to return the memory, but it's the default with small (roughly less than a page) allocations, because of how brk/sbrk work, Firefox should strive to do better.