This bug seems to be fixed in 1.0.5-1. I cannot reproduce the described
behaviour anymore. The bug should therefore be marked as closed.
Helmut
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I would guess it's some sort of race condition then. Did you give the
upstream bugzilla a once over to see if anyone had reported something
similar?
Good suggestion. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=227168
that describes what i observed.
Greetings
Helmut Grohne
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thanks
* Helmut Grohne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I would guess it's some sort of race condition then. Did you give the
upstream bugzilla a once over to see if anyone had reported something
similar?
Good suggestion.
* Helmut Grohne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Is it swapping heavily? That doesn't use CPU.
No. It simply hangs.
One workaround for this problem is sending a lot of SIGCONTs to
firefox-bin using a little perl one-liner. As far as I know futex()
calls get interrupted when signals arrive.
* Helmut Grohne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Did you say you were running on not very powerful hardware? Opening 30
tabs is certainly going to put a strain on an older machine.
Yes, but 30 tabs *should* consume a lot of cpu. I'd said nothing if it
just took very long. But firefox sometimes
Is it swapping heavily? That doesn't use CPU.
No. It simply hangs.
One workaround for this problem is sending a lot of SIGCONTs to
firefox-bin using a little perl one-liner. As far as I know futex()
calls get interrupted when signals arrive.
If I remember correctly I had some similar problems
Did you say you were running on not very powerful hardware? Opening 30
tabs is certainly going to put a strain on an older machine.
Yes, but 30 tabs *should* consume a lot of cpu. I'd said nothing if it
just took very long. But firefox sometimes even fails to redraw within 5
seconds *although*
* Helmut Grohne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Firefox (among others like mozilla, some other curses applications) hang
within a the following system call (obtained by strace) for 10 seconds
to 3 minutes:
Hang and then resume functioning?
Yes, the futex call somewhen returns.
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