Did you ktrace it?
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 03:08:43AM -0500, Nick Guenther wrote:
> I installed firefox35 on 4.6 and used it happily until yesterday when
> it went crazy. It will still load pages but extremely slowly--to the
> point of being unusable. I deleted my .mozilla directory--no luck. I
> reinstalled it--no luck. I got rid of swfdec--no luck. Here's top(1):
>
> load averages: 3.57, 3.41, 3.02 03:01:56
> 62 processes: 60 idle, 2 on processor
> CPU0 states: 24.1% user, 0.0% nice, 4.3% system, 5.9% interrupt, 65.7% idle
> CPU1 states: 35.9% user, 0.0% nice, 6.4% system, 0.1% interrupt, 57.6% idle
> Memory: Real: 170M/496M act/tot Free: 1000M Swap: 0K/2910M used/tot
>
> PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE WAIT TIME CPU COMMAND
> 5413 kousu 63 0 52M 80M onproc/0 - 3:13 78.76%
> firefox35-bin
> 9499 _x11 2 0 20M 39M sleep/1 select 8:04 29.98% Xorg
> 5556 kousu 2 0 2468K 3812K sleep/1 select 2:11 10.84% ssh
> 24095 kousu 2 0 9600K 18M sleep/1 poll 1:07 7.18% Terminal
> 15752 kousu 2 0 844K 1456K sleep/1 netio 0:16 0.98% sftp
> 3515 kousu 2 0 920K 2152K sleep/1 select 0:04 0.05% wmii
> 17588 kousu 2 0 19M 43M sleep/0 poll 0:07 0.00%
> liferea-bin
> 24351 kousu 18 0 592K 408K sleep/1 pause 0:09 0.00% sh
> 16769 kousu 2 0 544K 2088K sleep/1 poll 0:01 0.00% autocutsel
> 11276 kousu 2 0 1808K 4188K sleep/1 poll 0:00 0.00% gconfd-2
> 13162 kousu -6 0 636K 488K idle piperd 0:00 0.00% sh
> 28545 kousu 2 0 2168K 4600K sleep/0 poll 0:00 0.00% gconfd-2
> 25080 kousu 2 0 600K 1528K sleep/0 poll 0:00 0.00% top
> 28316 root 2 0 476K 1168K idle select 0:00 0.00% famd
> 11756 _pflogd 4 0 604K 332K sleep/1 bpf 0:00 0.00% pflogd
> 1948 kousu 3 0 1652K 3172K idle ttyin 0:00 0.00% lynx
> 30910 kousu 2 0 484K 780K sleep/0 select 0:00 0.00% ifstat
> 6337 kousu 3 0 716K 580K idle ttyin 0:00 0.00% ksh
>
> Is anyone else seeing this? Any tips on how to debug it? Clearly
> something has changed on my system because it was fine for a good
> month until just now.
>
> Thanks,
> -Nick
