On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 11:27:43AM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: > Mike Hommey wrote: > >On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 04:33:48PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: > >>Package: iceweasel > >>Version: 3.5.6-1 > >>Severity: important > >> > >>When I save a page with multiple elements on it, or save multiple > >>pages with a few elements on it, or just save the elements (graphics > >>mainly, I guess), iceweasel starts to slow my system down. If I > >>catch it quickly enough, I can stop the slowdown by shutting down > >>iceweasel then restarting it. If not, the systems becomes > >>increasingly unresponsive until it eventually hangs or spontaneously > >>reboots. > >> > >>This is a real pain right now because I'm submitting online job > >>applications and I save a copy of each job ad locally. The pages > >>aren't the most visual things I've ever seen, but even saving one > >>appears to be sufficient to start the slowdown. > >> > >>I've noticed the same thing on other sites where I don't save the > >>page - just individual elements from the page. > >> > >>Simply browsing without saving doesn't trigger the problem. It's the > >>saving locally that seems to be the culprit. And it appears to > >>become noticeable somewhere at around 10 - 20 files saved. > > > >Could you try to take a look at the system cpu and memory usage while > >doing so, and how it evolves ? How much memory do you have on your > >computer ? What kind of pages are you trying to save ? Are they massive > >? > > > >Thanks > > > >Mike > It's probably time I started using a swap file again. :) > > It turns out that with a 1G Windows XP virtual machine running, I'm > down to about 25M of free RAM. Saving files seems to use that > amount, which then puts the system into some kind brain-freeze until > the window manager restarts, killing the child processes that were > using all the memory. > > It's interesting that firefox-bin causes this memory overload while > programs like Dolphin, OpenOffice.org, Icedove and the gimp run > without substantially impacting my free memory. However, saving > files in Iceweasel seems to chew up free memory. I can load up my > system with lots of programs and open files and still have about 25M > of free memory. > > > I've got 4G of DDR2. Firefox-bin is a major CPU user when my system > goes into the slowing-down-then-freezing-and-restarting mode, but > it's not always the largest. The pages I'm saving are actually > fairly lightweight. They're mainly about 1 legal-size page of text.
I've got that much memory, running iceweasel almost permanently, and it doesn't suck my memory. Have you tried running in safe-mode and without plugins ? (See /usr/share/bug/iceweasel/presubj) Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
