Mopping Up Mozilla Memory Leaks

mouseman writes "Geodesic Systems, a maker of memory management/debugging software, has a live demo of their Linux product running on the Mozilla nightly builds. It's pretty damn slick -- it detects memory leaks and can show where in the code the leaked memory was allocated and actually recover (GC) the leaked memory. The Mozilla reports actually look pretty good, which jibes with my own impressions of how much it has improved -- see for yourself."

Comments

I wish I had a memory lead detector...

[Eric Damron]

'cause I think I'm of the age that most of my memory is leaking all over the floor....

Now where did I put that mop and bucket?

Re:I wish I had a memory lead detector...

[Beliskner]

Sometimes memory leaks are a good thing to test tolerance for a massive numbers of zombie processes! Leave them in, let malloc() have some fun. Tell your boss, "I'm testing the swapfile", and then say,
"These memory leaks demonstrate that as more memory is used for a process, the less effective the L1 and L2 become and the more delays you get due to the massive pipeline stalls in the P4. So that's why we need to upgrade to AMD, *please* sign my expenses form immediately and ignore that pron and DVD recorder"

Memory leak detector. Great I need one of those because, uhhhh can't remember. I need to get rid of a bug which does a malloc and then uhhh oh man it just slipped my mind. My computer doesn't need a memory leak detector, instead the thing that needs a memory leak detector is uhhhh I was about to say something but forgot.

Moral of the story: A PDA is better at stopping memory leaks than any memory leak detector.

IT renders pages faster

[Anonymous Coward]

The Segway has a built in web browser too? Cool!

Open Source gives back

[Anonymous Coward]

This is a great example of the Open Source community giving back to private companies. Geodesic tests an OSS web-browser, and Slashdot stress-tests their web server.

memory leaks, moz, and slash

[Alien54]

I know that when I have moderator status here on slash, I can watch the system resources disappear down a block hole if I hit a story with a lot of comments and I use Moz.

You can hear me screaming down the street.

It is a little better under IE, but I prefer to use Moz.

Re:Garbage collector

[Anonymous Coward]

Hmm, but I like to store pointers p and q as a=p+q and b=p-q, and to access them as *((a+b)/2) and *((a-b)/2). If somehow I erase "a" but not "b", will these garbage collectors be smart enough to free locations p and q?

Re:Garbage collector

[sporty]

For fun and profit!

1. Do obscure pointer arithmatic for fun.
2.
3. Profit!

Sorry.. I couldn't resist :)

Re:Thank Bruce Perens

[ethereal]

Wow, I think this is the first time I've ever seen an AC say something nice about Bruce Perens. I'm in shock!

MozillaQuest

[Anonymous Coward]

Soon on www.mozillaquest.com:

Mozilla leaks out of control
Mozillas memory leaks are out of control. Things has become so bad that mozilla-developers has developed a webapplication that automatically detects leaks. Yet again we can see that mozilla management is unable to keep the developers focused on developing a browser which has resulted in yet new features instead of fixing bugs. In previous articles MozillaQuest has described how new features has deleyed milestones and caused new bugs.