Hi Pete,
thanks for your thoughts on this. Sorry for the late reply, real life
got in the way...
Am 07.11.2024 um 23:57 schrieb Pete Wright:
I use both firefox and thunderbird pretty heavily on my workstation
(14.1) and laptop (current) and have not had any issues. a couple
thoughts though to help you debug this:
1. maybe run a memory test and check the SMART status of your disk(s).
i've seen behavior like this with flaky hardware in the past, and both
of those apps are extremely memory hungry
SMART data showed no errors of any kind. I also ran memtest for several
passes and everything was good on that front as well.
2. are you getting core's after rebuilding debug builds? if so what
does backtrace show?
There were no core files.
3. is this a low memory system? when i was debugging a memory leak in
firefox a while ago i wrote a wrapper that invoked it via limits(1).
The machine had 32GB of memory installed, which should have been enough.
After the machine started complaining about changes to BIOS settings, I
decided to go ahead an replace it. 12 years was a good run. ;-)
Best
Philipp
