On Nov 6, 2014, at 9:18 AM, Jakub Skrzypnik <jot.skr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It may be probably look like a x-post from bugs@, but I just want to share > my experience with users, not only with developers, maybe I just do > something wrong or someone here have same problem. > > So, problem is simple, but really annoying. When I do more intensive > browsing of Web, using Conkeror, Firefox or Chromium, and I try to open > lots of tabs, or some heavyweight websites, browser starts to increase a > very intensive disk activity for 10 seconds and goes to panic, not just > segfault. It's only done when I use browsers, probably not intented by > network, because I can stream videos from youtube using mplayer very well, > and also downloading of very large files works well. It's not even caused > by login.conf limit, to be sure I set them to infinity. > I'm very confused and maybe a bit depressed, because OpenBSD looks like an > awesome operating system, so I'll plan to use it as regular OS, but that > problem strongly disallows me to do regular activites here. But maybe I > just do it wrong, or wasn't have set up something correctly. > If you're interesed about debugging, proper dmesg/ps/trace output is at > bugs@, but among this, I'll appreciate any help or hints, or maybe someone > here have that or related problem? > > With regards, > Jakub Skrzypnik > > ---- > Sorry for all language errors and fails, English is not my native language. >
Hi Jakub, It would actually help us a lot if you updated to the latest snapshot. It includes extra debug information that will help identify the root cause of this issue, which appears to have cropped up only a few days ago. A new 'panic' line from the latest build would be a useful datapoint: panic: free: size too large 1881544 > 524288 (0xffff8000007b7000)
