6/29/2019 0 Comments Firefox Remote DesktopI just set up 5 Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard servers running Remote Desktop Services in a Session Collection. Download Mozilla Firefox, a free Web browser. Firefox is created by a global non-profit dedicated to putting individuals in control online. Get Firefox for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS today! The latest server I put on has 96GB of RAM and hosts 80 - 160 users. All users are simply getting web access with Firefox for the most part. Every day since putting this on, I have had from one to three users' firefox instances balloon up to a maximum of 30GB(!!!!!) of memory consumed each day. On inspecting their traffic, it was usually either:
Most users only had 1 or 2 tabs open. It appears that Flash is the culprit. I have Flash fully updated to the latest version, and Firefox is running on the latest version. All OS updates have been done as well. Why is this happening / how can I curb this? I can't have 3 users take up all of the server's resources. ![]()
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1 AnswerI put together a temporary 'handling' for the problem that is not a handling at all. I am still absolutely looking for the actual source of the problem. Temporary HandlingI built a Powershell script that runs on chron, which finds all firefox instances running up excessive amounts of memory, messages the user and then kills the process. To invoke:
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