Bug 103468 - Gigantic memory usage when browsing a web page
Summary: Gigantic memory usage when browsing a web page
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Alias: None
Product: konqueror
Classification: Applications
Component: khtml (show other bugs)
Version: 3.3.2
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Konqueror Developers
URL:
Keywords:
: 112268 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2005-04-08 01:54 UTC by Nicolas Girard
Modified: 2012-06-18 14:02 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Nicolas Girard 2005-04-08 01:54:12 UTC
Version:           3.3.2 (using KDE 3.3.2, Mandrake Linux Cooker i586 - Cooker)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.4.3 (Mandrakelinux 10.2 3.4.3-7mdk)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.10-1mdk-i686-up-64GB

This defect had my box run out of memory :-/

1. Before starting konqueror:

$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffer    cached
Mem:       1036188     354360     681828          0      1733    129584
-/+ buffers/cache:     207440     828748
Swap:       506008     124320     381688

2. Start Konqueror and browse
http://zoonek2.free.fr/UNIX/49_OpenOffice/1.html

3. At this stage:
$ free

             total       used       free     sha    cached
Mem:       1036188     891892     144296    146736
-/+ buffers/cache:     726992     309196
Swap:       506008     124320     381688


That is: Konqueror used 537532 bytes of memory to browse this page.
Comment 1 Thiago Macieira 2005-04-08 04:13:19 UTC
I can confirm, but it's X that uses the memory here.

In any event, the page is *huge*.
Comment 2 Tommi Tervo 2006-04-11 22:03:55 UTC
*** Bug 112268 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Maksim Orlovich 2007-12-27 00:36:39 UTC
4.0 should be a lot friendlier on that, but basically 100s of MB are needed just because of all the images in there. 
Comment 4 George Goldberg 2008-04-20 03:13:30 UTC
svn trunk r795406 seems to use a lot less memory than 3.5.9 or FF2.0. Its a huge page, so I don't see what else can be done about it.
Comment 5 Myriam Schweingruber 2012-06-18 14:02:56 UTC
Message from the Bugsquad and Konqueror teams:
This bug is closed as outdated, as we do not have the manpower to maintain the KDE3 version anymore.
If you still can reproduce this issue with Konqueror 4.8.4 or later, please open a new report.
Thank you for your understanding.