On Wednesday 03 March 2010 00:48:36 Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 02 March 2010 20:37:15 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Hi, > > > > There's a vBulletin forum I frequent: > > > > http://forum.thinkbike.co.za > > > > and my usual browser is Konqueror (just because kparts makes it so > > convenient). Every so often, with no pattern I can find, this site hangs > > Konqueror - cpu goes to 100% and the browser stays unresponsive. > > > > I've tried various tricks to see what is going on when it does this, > > > > including strace, to no avail. I have a hunch this started when I > > > > installed konq- plugins, I have these enabled: > > Adblock > > bookmarklets > > Crashes Monitor > > KTHML settings > > Konqueror feed icon > > Search bar > > translate > > User Agent Changer > > Web Archiver > > > > My next step is to start the laborious process of disabling them one by > > one > > > > to see if it makes a difference. Meanwhile, does anyone have suggestions > > for clever trouble-shooting techniques to apply here? > > > > I doubt anyone will have a solution to hand, just some pointers to likely > > things to check is all I'm after at this stage. > > Some of the animated gifs can start eating up resources. Over-elaborate > avatars can also have the same effect and when people start using both gifs > and flash animations the there may be a combination that causes the > problems you describe. Anyway, just an idea. Try it with an old machine > and see if the symptoms get worse/sooner.
That's worth persuing. I thought of two things that triggers the crash, it's just not predictable: 1. Edit a reply and click "Post reply" 2. Click on the next page. It's always one of those two things just before a freeze, which seems significant. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
