Re: Has iceweasel (or maybe flash) gone single threaded
On 25/11/11 23:52, Bob Proulx wrote: Alan Chandler wrote: Over the last few weeks iceweasel has started to operate strangely. The whole application stops whilst trying to open a web page. you can't switch tabs. Sometimes it gets SO BAD that the entire desktop locks for a while. Am I the only person experiencing this. I am wondering if you are running into the fsync() debacle? Rather than point to any particular article I will just point to the class of them since the discussion has been endless and involved. Might be. Because this is my desktop which powers down at night I have to use anacron to run my daily backup. This rsyncs my virtual machine images (about 70GB of them) to another machine as backup and seems to be faily heavy on disk usage for a few hours each morning. That is when I get the worst experience - reading slashdot before I start the day. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ed0feb6.2000...@chandlerfamily.org.uk
Re: Has iceweasel (or maybe flash) gone single threaded
Alan Chandler wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: I am wondering if you are running into the fsync() debacle? Might be. Because this is my desktop which powers down at night I have to use anacron to run my daily backup. This rsyncs my virtual machine images (about 70GB of them) to another machine as backup and seems to be faily heavy on disk usage for a few hours each morning. That is when I get the worst experience - reading slashdot before I start the day. 70G would be much larger than any expected buffer cache. I would expect that would thrash your file buffer cache completely. Are the contents of the images changing daily? This might be interesting reading concerning this issue. Patches to rsync and benchmarks of it using posix_fadvise() with POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED and POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE flags to avoid file buffer cache thrash. http://lwn.net/Articles/449420/ Or you could simply move the start of the backup earlier so as to finish before you get to slashdot in the morning. :-) That is probably what I would do. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Has iceweasel (or maybe flash) gone single threaded
Over the last few weeks iceweasel has started to operate strangely. The whole application stops whilst trying to open a web page. you can't switch tabs. Sometimes it gets SO BAD that the entire desktop locks for a while. Am I the only person experiencing this. I suspect it has something to do with Javascript or Flash - Slashdot is a good candidate to cause this to happen - although it often appears from the status bar at the bottom that it is trying to fetch some advert info. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ecf5bed.2040...@chandlerfamily.org.uk
Re: Has iceweasel (or maybe flash) gone single threaded
Yes, I mentioned that in recent days, and from what i observed, it's more of a javascript, because i didn't experience freezes on flash heavy websites. Regards Roman On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Alan Chandler a...@chandlerfamily.org.ukwrote: Over the last few weeks iceweasel has started to operate strangely. The whole application stops whilst trying to open a web page. you can't switch tabs. Sometimes it gets SO BAD that the entire desktop locks for a while. Am I the only person experiencing this. I suspect it has something to do with Javascript or Flash - Slashdot is a good candidate to cause this to happen - although it often appears from the status bar at the bottom that it is trying to fetch some advert info. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.**uk http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.**debian.orgdebian-user-requ...@lists.debian.orgwith a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/**4ECF5BED.2040202@** chandlerfamily.org.ukhttp://lists.debian.org/4ecf5bed.2040...@chandlerfamily.org.uk
Re: Has iceweasel (or maybe flash) gone single threaded
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Alan Chandler a...@chandlerfamily.org.uk wrote: Over the last few weeks iceweasel has started to operate strangely. The whole application stops whilst trying to open a web page. you can't switch tabs. Sometimes it gets SO BAD that the entire desktop locks for a while. Am I the only person experiencing this. I suspect it has something to do with Javascript or Flash - Slashdot is a good candidate to cause this to happen - although it often appears from the status bar at the bottom that it is trying to fetch some advert info. It happens to me too, I think with some javascript which I don't identified yet. I remember read about this kind of issue was going to be fixed using ¿one thread by tab? There is a mozilla page talking about [1] Maybe there are any bug related ? Regards, [1] http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_hangs#Hang_loading_sites_with_JavaScript -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAL5yMZQHkEwZ6c-zh36Te65PoDB3-LhsLyi4h+og=jvynzw...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Has iceweasel (or maybe flash) gone single threaded
Alan Chandler wrote: Over the last few weeks iceweasel has started to operate strangely. The whole application stops whilst trying to open a web page. you can't switch tabs. Sometimes it gets SO BAD that the entire desktop locks for a while. Am I the only person experiencing this. I suspect it has something to do with Javascript or Flash - Slashdot is a good candidate to cause this to happen - although it often appears from the status bar at the bottom that it is trying to fetch some advert info. I found the hangs as I call them annoying and left iceweasel for google-chrome-beta which does not have the problem. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jaohk1$fhj$2...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Has iceweasel (or maybe flash) gone single threaded
On Friday 25 November 2011 10:19:58 Javier Barroso wrote: I remember read about this kind of issue was going to be fixed using ¿one thread by tab? There is a mozilla page talking about [1] Last week Mozilla announced that their multi-processus project for Firefox (Electrolysis) is delayed because it's eating Mozilla's manpower. Smaller projects would probably receive highlights. To diet websites and avoid crap I'm using NoScript addon and friends. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20251905.28886.b.st...@gmx.com
Re: Has iceweasel (or maybe flash) gone single threaded
Alan Chandler wrote: Over the last few weeks iceweasel has started to operate strangely. The whole application stops whilst trying to open a web page. you can't switch tabs. Sometimes it gets SO BAD that the entire desktop locks for a while. Am I the only person experiencing this. I am wondering if you are running into the fsync() debacle? Rather than point to any particular article I will just point to the class of them since the discussion has been endless and involved. http://www.google.com/search?q=firefox+fsync Except that problem is getting to be pretty well aged now. Nothing changed recently. You were probably already aware of it. But you may be experiencing it recently now due to changes in behavior, such as compiling a kernel in the background while web browsing which will trigger this problem. Or something else. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature
