previously on this list Loganaden Velvindron contributed: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 1:15 AM, Luis Coronado <lcoron...@ticoit.com> wrote: > > I know of similar issues with OOM and folks here recommeded reviewing the > > ulimit settings: > > > > http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=133363175403956&w=2 > > > > You dont post dmesg, etc., so I dont know if you really have little ram > > available. > > It's probably related to ulimit issues. > > I've switched to google chrome, and I must admit that it's a better > experience so far. > > As crazy as it may sound, I'm watching youtube videos using html5 on > google chrome. It's a decent experience :-) >
I've found similar issues with xombrero, though I read on the xombrero repo comments that it may be relieved somewhat once the jump to webkit2 is made as webkit 1 leaks memory "like a sieve". Not sure if that has already happened. Google chrome which used webkit until it forked it recently has had a lot of effort put into avoiding OOM crashes due to particular trouble in the past possibly due to it's process per tab and so webkit2 should have those benefits but I'm under the impression the issues are still there but to a lesser degree. I don't remember it ever being a problem on firefox over years of usage but have switched to xombrero now and so with this report I'm putting it down to sites being far heavier than they used to be until someone tells me otherwise. I'd say sites now running javascript from 10s of domains may contribute but xombrero doesn't allow that in whitelist mode anyway. I don't remember it happening on linux which shouldn't have but has a ulimit -d of unlimited by default. Perhaps these bugs would have been fixed log ago if it didn't. Could it be that the memory recovery routines stupidly expect unlimited (mem + swap) as the maximum rather than checking limits as well or just that it takes a much longer time to crash with this default that especially seems to happen with badly designed, aka 'modern' sites like ebay? -- _______________________________________________________________________ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface' (Doug McIlroy) In Other Words - Don't design like polkit or systemd _______________________________________________________________________
