GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 766158
Massive memory leak on certain sites
Last modified: 2016-05-09 13:38:33 UTC
On certain sites, epiphany keeps eating virtual memory until the OOM killer is activated. This includes livejournal.com and possibly even some parts of linkedin.com. How to reproduce: - enter livejournal.com (I switched the site to old design, if it matters) - keep scrolling down - watch memory consumption This does not reproduce in other browsers using webkit2gtk on the same machine. My installation of Epiphany comes from Arch Linux. No additional plugins/userscripts are installed.
(In reply to Alexey Galakhov from comment #0) > This does not reproduce in other browsers using webkit2gtk on the same > machine. That seems unlikely; what other browsers are you testing? I'm pretty sure this is WebKit #126122. Rest assured this is a very high priority issue for us at the moment.
(In reply to Michael Catanzaro from comment #1) > That seems unlikely; what other browsers are you testing? Actually, come to think of it, I can't think of any browser besides Epiphany that uses webkit2gtk... are you sure it's using webkit2gtk?
Yes, I'm sure. The same site works fine in i.e. lariza. I carefully choosed webkit2gtk browsers only. $ ldd /usr/bin/lariza ... libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37 => /usr/lib/libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37 (0x00007f8449aa4000) ... $ ldd /usr/bin/epiphany ... libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37 => /usr/lib/libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37 (0x00007f4cf11d7000) ... Looks like epiphany has at least something that triggers the WebKit issue.