Bug#859410: libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37: Memory pressure relief renders system unusable

[Alberto Garcia]

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On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 08:16:59PM +0200, Alessio wrote:

> >> Please, seriously consider to cherrypick the solution.
> >>
> >> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164052
> >
> > ...but this was already cherry-picked in 2.14.3:
> 
> Didn't noticed it... Quite strange, though, because I suffered the
> very same problem past week. Could we keep this bug open for a
> while, so to verify if I can reproduce it?

Ok, please come back when you have more information.

Berto

Bug#859410: libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37: Memory pressure relief renders system unusable

[Alessio]

2017-04-03 13:52 GMT+02:00 Alberto Garcia :
> On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 12:44:40PM +0200, Alessio Gaeta wrote:
>
>> Please, seriously consider to cherrypick the solution.
>>
>> Here the links to upstream bugs:
>>
>> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164052
>
> ...but this was already cherry-picked in 2.14.3:

Didn't noticed it... Quite strange, though, because I suffered the
very same problem past week. Could we keep this bug open for a while,
so to verify if I can reproduce it?

Thanks
--
Alessio

Bug#859410: libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37: Memory pressure relief renders system unusable

[Alberto Garcia]

On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 12:44:40PM +0200, Alessio Gaeta wrote:

> Please, seriously consider to cherrypick the solution.
> 
> Here the links to upstream bugs:
> 
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164052

...but this was already cherry-picked in 2.14.3:

  
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 2.14.3?

  - Create GLX OpenGL contexts using version 3.2 (core profile) when available 
to reduce the memory
consumption on Mesa based drivers.
  - Improve memory pressure handler to reduce the CPU usage on memory pressure 
situations.
  [...]
  

https://github.com/Igalia/webkit/commit/ce78743407649c75843a44a74d94aff606a812e3

Berto

Bug#859410: libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37: Memory pressure relief renders system unusable

[Alessio Gaeta]

Package: libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37
Version: 2.14.5-2
Severity: important
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,

I file in Debian also a bug that bites me quite often. The bug has been
acknowledged upstream and already solved.

I'm filing this with severity important, but could also be grave, as it could
cause data loss, due to inability to use system and the need to restart it
forcibly.

Please, seriously consider to cherrypick the solution.

Here the links to upstream bugs:

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164052
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=773605

Altough in Gnome Bugzilla the bug refers to Epiphany, in my case it is
triggered by Evoution (which I must keep open all time, due to the lack of
proper email notification in evolution-data-server).

Thanks



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0 2.22.0-1
ii  libc6   2.24-9
ii  libcairo2   1.14.8-1
ii  libegl1-mesa [libegl1-x11]  13.0.6-1
ii  libenchant1c2a  1.6.0-11+b1
ii  libfontconfig1  2.11.0-6.7+b1
ii  libfreetype62.6.3-3+b2
ii  libgcc1 1:6.3.0-11
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0  2.36.5-2
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]13.0.6-1
ii  libglib2.0-02.50.3-2
ii  libgnutls30 3.5.8-3
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0  1.10.4-1
ii  libgstreamer1.0-0   1.10.4-1
ii  libgtk-3-0  3.22.11-1
ii  libharfbuzz-icu01.4.2-1
ii  libharfbuzz0b   1.4.2-1
ii  libhyphen0  2.8.8-5
ii  libicu5757.1-5
ii  libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 2.14.5-2
ii  libjpeg62-turbo 1:1.5.1-2
ii  libnotify4  0.7.7-1+b1
ii  libpango-1.0-0  1.40.4-1
ii  libpng16-16 1.6.28-1
ii  libsecret-1-0   0.18.5-3.1
ii  libsoup2.4-12.56.0-2
ii  libsqlite3-03.16.2-3
ii  libstdc++6  6.3.0-11
ii  libwayland-client0  1.12.0-1
ii  libwayland-egl1-mesa [libwayland-egl1]  13.0.6-1
ii  libwayland-server0  1.12.0-1
ii  libwebp60.5.2-1
ii  libx11-62:1.6.4-3
ii  libxcomposite1  1:0.4.4-2
ii  libxdamage1 1:1.1.4-2+b3
ii  libxml2 2.9.4+dfsg1-2.2
ii  libxslt1.1  1.1.29-2.1
ii  zlib1g  1:1.2.8.dfsg-5

Versions of packages libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 recommends:
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-base  1.10.4-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-good  1.10.4-1
ii  libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37-gtk2  2.14.5-2

libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 suggests no packages.