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Re: Excessive memory usage
Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2014 4:35 pm
by greiner
Tony Thomas wrote:I recently installed Adblock plus with Firefox and found it very effective. Today, my fan is roaring with the high resource use - I have i7 3rd gen and 12Gb RAM. I will have to uninstall Adblock if this continues.
If your fan is roaring it means that your computer is doing some heavy processing and not that it uses up a lot of memory. You can check out how much memory an application is using by opening the task manager.
Re: Excessive memory usage
Posted: Tue May 27, 2014 10:06 pm
by pseudoid
Unfortunately, I am also seeing some odd behavior with my PC when I enable ABP.
The major issue being that my CooloerMaster CMStorm keyboard becomes unresponsive, even though this keyboard's polling is very high.
I started noticing some lag with my keyboard a few weeks ago, and then upon reading the ABP gossip, I disabled it from my Firefox and the problem went awayl
Just today, I re-enabled the ABP and the keyboard became slightly sluggish again.
Maybe 4GB or fast RAM in a Win8 machine is just not enough these days.
Re: Excessive memory usage
Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 12:02 am
by Anon12000
If it wasn't of MemoryFox, AdBlock Plus would make firefox.exe take 1.5GB of RAM. Yes, I have a lot of extensions but I suspect ABP to increase RAM usage exponentially. Probably ranging from 4 to 6 times. It's insane. You want to know HOW MUCH it takes RAM? On Windows, open the Task Manager and spot Firefox.exe with ABP installed. Then,
visit this page. Watch the RAM usage EXPLODE.
I have 6GB of RAM installed in my machine and Firefox likes to take 1/3 of it...
Re: Excessive memory usage
Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 7:27 am
by Gingerbread Man
Re: Excessive memory usage
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 10:42 pm
by FixmyPCStore
We've encountered this issue before and often a good clean on subscriptions helps. If you need to operate under that many subscriptions I would look into upgrading your computer. Other options all seem to sacrifice efficiency and unless you have to do that, I would suggest cleaning or upgrading.
Re: Excessive memory usage
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2014 11:08 pm
by startas
Its not only firefox problem - memory usage with chrome and adblock plus is disaster, too. Chrome has huge memory leaks with versions >34, so using those new versions with adblock plus, that site just explodes - it doesnt even fit into my 4 gb ram, so chrome crashes ... so for now using chrome 34 and adblock - no plus, it works better for now, till plus will fix its memory problems, because i have been using same list of blocks for years, and memory usage has grown way too much, so now this site loads - it uses 1,4 gb ram, but still loads.
Re: Excessive memory usage
Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2014 6:46 am
by Gingerbread Man
startas wrote:Its not only firefox problem
That was noted in comments 2 and 4 in the above issue report. Watch
ticket 145 (
RSS feed) and its dependencies for any progress.
The page in the example contains 390
iframe elements. That's extremely unusual and almost certainly unique to that site.
Re: Excessive memory usage
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 3:58 pm
by jgf
Not memory but CPU usage by the new ABP is my issue. Since the recent ABP upgrade Facebook is unusable, CPU usage runs around 50% with ABP enabled and the site response is abysmal; switch to any other tab (email, forum, etc.) and CPU usage is 2%-5% ...even online games rarely use more than 25%.
Re: Excessive memory usage
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 4:03 pm
by mapx
You could try clearing cache + cookies or reset firefox (and reinstalling ABP - test keeping only ABP, then install the other addons)
Re: Excessive memory usage
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2015 2:51 pm
by jgf
I clear the cache (limited to 20meg) every fifteen minutes or so while online. I am loathe to clear cookies because that means two weeks of having to log back in everywhere (I'm currently seeking a replacement for yahoo mail since they have no concept of "keep me logged in"); I will on occasion delete specific cookies.
My issue is definitely between the most recent ABP update and Facebook. Anywhere else I've been online, so far, works as usual; but on Farcebook everything is ridiculously slow - normally I can scroll up and down my home page easily, now i move the scroll wheel and nothing happens for several seconds, then the page will scroll slightly, pause, stutter up or down, scroll perhaps half a screen, pause and stutter more. I disable ABP and Farcebook works normally again.