Hi dev-platform, We had a session about shutdown problems during the London workweek. I did a writeup of what was discussed and as it grew into a large-ish piece, I put it in a wiki page (instead of the email I intended to send initially) [1]. There's been a lot of work on reducing shutdown crashes/hangs (especially with e10s) this year, but we still have a lot of work to do [2].
The page contains some discussions about the kinds of issues we ran into in the gfx team and of how we went about addressing some of them. If you are working on shutdown problems, you may (or may not) find useful information in there. If you have some experience with dealing with shutdown bugs, I encourage you to do a brain dump on that wiki page. There's also a two-phase shutdown proposal briefly described in there [3], that is worth discussing because it would involve some cooperation between different modules. Cheers, Nical [1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Gecko:Shutdown_issues [2] https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/search/?product=Firefox&shutdown_progress=shutdown&_facets=signature&_columns=date&_columns=signature&_columns=version&_columns=build_id&_columns=platform&_columns=shutdown_progress#facet-signature [3] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Gecko:Shutdown_issues#Two-phase_shutdown_proposal _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
