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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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      Wheresmyseme
      Participant
      November 24, 2012

      I saw the same thing in Firefox 17 with Flash Player 11.5.502.110 yesterday.  I ran performance monitor with 30-second samples for a couple hours and did not see any net gain in memory over time.

      I'd make two recommendations:

      1.) Upgrade to the latest available Flash Player, which you can get from here: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer

      2.) Upgrade to the latest available version of your browser.

      If you continue to see this behavior, please let us know.  Be specific about the player, browser and OS versions you're using.  If this is a problem, we definitely want to address it; however, we need enough information to reproduce it.

      Thanks!


      Hi,

      Sorry for restarting this but I am seeing spikes in excess of 1million K for one of the flashplayer plugins when I am on duelingnetwork.com, this is a recent issue on the most recent flash player 11.5.something and I am on Firefox 17.0, using windows 7 64-bit.

      On google chrome one of the google chrome proccesses climbs up steadily until it reaches around the million mark and it crashes (Flashplayer, google chrome insists). Is this a flash player problem or the problem of the website, once again though this is a recent issue.

      Please and thank you

      P.s In the time taken to write this post (wth dueling network idle in the background) flashplayer has climed from 93000k to 211000k

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