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Anonymous
June 21, 2012
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Large Memory Usage in Flash Player 11.3.300.257

  • June 21, 2012
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Jeromie Clark wrote:

Hi,


You should see two FlashPlayer_11_3_300_257.exe processes.  This is how Protected Mode in Firefox works.  It does *not* double memory usage. 

Having two FlashPlayerPlugin_11_3_300_257.exe processes may not double memory usage but your 'low-integrity heavy-lifter' process definitely has massive memory usage issues that need fixing.

As I type, this process is using 792MB of RAM all by itself.

Before the Flash update, Firefox's own 'plugin-container.exe' only ever used under 200MB at the very most  This is clearly unacceptable memory hogging by your new Flash process.

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      jeromiec83223024
      Inspiring
      June 21, 2012

      As the issue you're describing is distinct from the problem in the previous discussion, I've branched this into a new discussion so we can discuss it in more detail.

      Flash Player will use a percentage of your available memory.  It also has a garbage collection system that kicks in periodically, and we should not make your system crash or swap to disk excessively.

      If you've seen a significant increase in memory usage on a particular site between Flash Player 11.2 and Flash Player 11.3, or memory usage that grows indefinitely, that may be indiciative of a problem and we'd definitely want to investigate.

      If you can point us to specific links that demonstrate this issue, we'd be happy to take a look.

      Thanks!

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      adobe_user875
      Participant
      November 6, 2012

      Hello,

      I seem to have this problem too.  I didn't know it was flash causing it untill recently. Whenever i'm watching something in flash, it starts to hog up all my computers memory (up to 2.5 GB) . I've tried using IE, Firefox, WaterFox and Chrome and every time the behaviour is the same.  I've uninstalled all Adobe products and reinstalled just Flash and getting the same problem.   Please help.... only way I can surf the web right now is without flash enabled.

      Appreciate you help.

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      adobe_user875
      Participant
      November 6, 2012

      This behavior is mostly likely content specific. 

      Can you point me to the URLs that exhibit this behavior? 

      Also, are you browsing the web with a single tab, or lots of simultaneous tabs?  Each tab consumes resources. 


      example sites are : http://www.secondgeargames.com/word-bubbles-for-kids  and anything on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3ZrLDm_cXc&feature=g-vrec) 

      I don't think it's content related, because my work laptop (32 bit Windows XP) doesn't have this problem. It happens on my home computer which is 64bit.

      I'm browsing in single tab when it happens.

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