Firefox is swimming in a 24GB of RAM

Oooh Ahhh. Firefox is swimming in a 24GB of RAM.

Are you one of those people using 24 tabs? :rofl:

Edit:

Edit: I only have 32 GB so i don’t want it using ALL my memory!

Memory is cheap :melting_face:

I have at least a hundred tabs and FF sits at 2 GB. My money would be on a misbehaving extension.

Okay … maybe 24 extensions. :rofl:

@Beiruty
What app are you using to display the above summary.

Pudge

Standard KDE Plasma System Monitor

With firefox having group of tabs, and with 64GB of RAM, I let Firefox be a central data vacuuming and presentation system
Here is the firefox task manager

with this configuration–if this is the first time its’ gobbled anywhere near 24GB–extensions would be my guess too. If it’s every day my answer would shift to hardware.

Unless it’s the famous FF settings ‘acceleration’ dealio?

PS–I could open your picture in a new tab but I couldn’t ctrl+ it to a readable state so no opinion about your task manager

2 cents

You may want to check your browser extensions. 5GB are a bit much and I suspect that some may fight each other.

Have you checked DDR5 prices recently? :sweat_smile:

If I remember correctly, I added profiling service/tool for the FF.
I generated an AI coded bash script since the FF taskmanager does not have dump to file option to the tabulated mem/cpu stats

─(12:29:45)──> firefox_stats                                                                                                       ──(Fri,Aug28)─┘
CATEGORY                  MEMORY (MB)     CPU %      PID       
------------------------------------------------------------------
All Extensions Combined   N/A             N/A        (Inside Main/Tabs)
------------------------------------------------------------------
Tab Process               2498.9          5.1        4934      
Tab Process               1253.3          0.7        90223     
Tab Process               1076.8          2.4        4904      
Tab Process               1063.7          0.3        65379     
Tab Process               1026.4          4.5        66163     
Tab Process               1006.9          0.5        62993     
Tab Process               952.8           0.3        7703      
Tab Process               919.4           0.8        4871      
Tab Process               809.6           0.3        315433    
Tab Process               775.8           0.2        58281     
Tab Process               728.9           0.1        64510     
Tab Process               725.2           0.2        58143     
Tab Process               683.6           0.2        63969     
Tab Process               672.4           0.2        37203     
Tab Process               617.8           0.1        63332     
Tab Process               604.3           0.1        58005     
Tab Process               568.2           0.2        65150     
Tab Process               542.6           0.4        62300     
Tab Process               528.3           0.1        61968     
Tab Process               485.1           0.0        58285     
Tab Process               441.2           0.7        386816    
Tab Process               438.0           0.1        64722     
Tab Process               416.7           0.0        5388      
Tab Process               412.4           0.0        4647      
Tab Process               389.1           0.0        64920     
Tab Process               362.2           0.0        58555     
Tab Process               331.2           0.0        150952    
Tab Process               319.2           0.0        89852     
Tab Process               272.8           0.0        277466    
Tab Process               241.0           0.0        312438    
Tab Process               239.2           0.0        312607    
Tab Process               206.9           0.0        5150      
Tab Process               168.4           0.0        62987     
Tab Process               134.6           0.0        66259     
Tab Process               126.1           0.0        387820    
Tab Process               122.9           0.0        387663    
Tab Process               116.4           0.0        387996    
Tab Process               115.5           0.0        388093    
Tab Process               114.6           0.0        388159    
------------------------------------------------------------------
Main Browser Process      1720.7          5.4        3497      
Utility (rdd)             195.2           0.0        4656      
Utility (utility)         76.5            0.0        5114      
Utility (socket)          67.7            0.0        3994      
Utility (forkserver)      30.7            0.0        4591      
Main Browser Process      4.1             0.0        388435    
Main Browser Process      3.3             0.0        3600

Huh?.. I try to choke my browser off in a shallow puddle of RAM. Go figure. :flushed_face:

Extensions are using 2GB

Yes 30 active tabs. If you constantly using all of them, then all of them will need ram.

Are you constantly switching between all open tabs?

Yes. There is a way to close tab groups and then restore them on demand

I do not know bout tab groups. But if, you really actually using all thous tabs (they need to be active (play music check messages keep state etc) there is no way around, they will eat memory. And modern web pretty heavy. Its running 24 different games simultaneously.
I usually have lots of open tabs, but I do not use them all simultaneously, so they can be loaded on demand. Otherwise yes, lots of mem needed.

I can recommend to setup zram (with lz4 compression). Or use intel optane drive exclusively for swap. In your case of usage.

I already have a 32GB Swap in addition to the 64GB DDR5 RAM. No issues at all plus 1Gbps fiber-to-home link, the I can switch tabs and access the online data, like a flash.
It is nice when my new rig is capable of being ahead of the software.