Package: iceweasel Version: 52.2.0esr-1~deb9u1 Severity: important Tags: upstream
Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? Adding the following line to /etc/security/limits.conf: * soft as 2400000 * hard as 3600000 * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? Raing the limits does allow the problem to fester longer but smaller values can cause Firefox to fail to even initialize * What was the outcome of this action? This bug report * What outcome did you expect instead? That the software doesn't consume 4GB of Memory to display a 1MB image -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages iceweasel depends on: ii firefox-esr 52.2.0esr-1~deb9u1 iceweasel recommends no packages. iceweasel suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
