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title="NEW - [GTK] WebKitGtk+ uses too many file descriptors"
href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152316#c23">Comment # 23</a>
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title="NEW - [GTK] WebKitGtk+ uses too many file descriptors"
href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152316">bug 152316</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:cgarcia@igalia.com" title="Carlos Garcia Campos <cgarcia@igalia.com>"> <span class="fn">Carlos Garcia Campos</span></a>
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<pre>(In reply to <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=152316#c22">comment #22</a>)
<span class="quote">> Just now had to kill -9 the Network process.
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> After several days using it, today it exhausted all my memory: 8 Gb RAM and
> 8 Gb swap.
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> top was showing ~50Gb of VIRT memory used.
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> I could not confirm the reason was, again, the leak in open descriptors
> since my laptop was almost unusable,</span >
It wasn't. File descriptors are not actually leaked, but hey stay open while resources are cached in the memory cache. The memory cache lives in the web process, not in the network process.
<span class="quote">> swapping all the time. In any case, I
> suspect that was the case.</span >
This looks like a memory leak in the network process instead, the network process releases the file descriptors properly.</pre>
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