On 11/02/18(Sun) 12:37, Matthieu Herrb wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I ugraded my laptop from sources to -current yesterday. Since then
> firefox stops resolving host names after a dozen of minutes or so.

What do you mean with "stops resolving host names"?  What happens?  What
do you see?

How did figure out it was a name resolution problem?

A firefox error page?
 
You saw some  syscalls failing via ktrace? 

You looked at tcpdump outputs?

Some network counters were increasing?

> It's not the firefox port itself, since it started after I rebooted a
> the new kernel, while base and xenocara were rebuilding. My previous
> kernel was from jan, 31.

So you're saying that *some* kernels newer than jan, 31 expose this
regression?  Could you bisect when it has been introduced?

> Other programs are fine (including chromium), but appart may be chromium
> nothing I run is using threads and name resolution at the same time .

You're assuming it's related to threaded applications,  why?

> Any idea of what's causing this, or should I start bisecting ?

A bisection would be great.

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