** Summary changed: - automatic stack collection can be annoying, especially with firefox + automatic stack/core dump collection is far too resource intensive
** Description changed: - Binary package hint: firefox - It's annoying enough when your web browser crashes, but when the bug reporting tool tries to collect a stack trace, using up lots of memory and making you wait for 20-30 seconds, it adds insult to injury. To make matters worse, it's useless without debugging symbols, so really it's just wasting users' time. The first thing I did on the first crash - was install the debugging symbols, but it turns out that those are 100MB - for some reason, and the reporting tool ends up crippling my system for - 5-10 minutes when they are installed and firefox crashes, even though I - have a fairly decent 512MB of memory. I'm not sure why the debugging - symbols are so painful to use, but in any case, it would be better to - skip collecting a stack trace when they're not installed, so that at - least the average user doesn't have to suffer through that right after - firefox crashes. + of firefox was install the debugging symbols, but it turns out that + those are 100MB for some reason, and the reporting tool ends up + crippling my system for 5-10 minutes if firefox crashes when they are + installed, even though I have a fairly decent 512MB of memory. I'm not + sure why the debugging symbols are so painful to use, but in any case, + it would be better to skip collecting a stack trace when they're not + installed, so that at least the average user doesn't have to suffer + through that right after crashes. -- automatic stack/core dump collection is far too resource intensive https://launchpad.net/bugs/76828 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
