firefox grows, taking over all resources

[Mike]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Lennart Sorensen
> <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> Well I have started using the firefox 4 beta version.  So far I am
>> actually impressed.  It is much faster and much less resource hungry
>> than firefox 3.x has been.  Might be worth a try.
>
> Sounds like a step ahead.  Web browsers seem to be the worst offenders
> these days in the battle to chew up all my swap space.
>
> Chrome has the small merit that, as each window is managed by a
> separate process, there's *some* hope of tracking offensively bloated
> processes and expunging them without necessarily needing to kill off
> the whole browser.  Unfortunately, it's only worth searching for the
> *worst* bloat, and that only when things start swapping to a
> troublesome degree.
> --

Chrome's <Shift>-<Esc> status interface allows you to clearly identify
hoggish pages or even plugins, terminate them, and reload them.
Untended, however, the browser seems to still be able to grow without
reasonable bounds...

I've tried setting limits via "ulimit" (actually Lennart's
suggestion), but chrome / firefox / opera all seem to happily
circumvent such limits :-(

It seems absurd that the only way to put any of these browsers on a
diet is to limit the size of the room (VM).

Cheers,
Mike
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