On Sun, 3 Feb 2019 14:56:40 +0100 (CET) "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
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On Sunday, 2019-02-03 at 08:46 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Carlos E. R. <> [02-03-19 08:34]:
Hi,
Last December I reported this problem on my laptop, and now my desktop also exhibits it.
After several days running, this morning it locked as soon as I changed workspaces. I noticed kswapd0 was busy long time, and that firefox had about 10 gigs of virtual memory. The disk activity led was solid blue. I couldn't find out more, the machine froze and had to be hard rebooted.
A week before it also froze, but that time I could not observe anything.
I have noticed firefox on occasion to decide to use all the memory it could find and had to kill/restart firefox, but never to the point of requiring a reboot. but I have no swap and 36gb of memory.
Hmm, I haven't seen this but sometimes when I have a large number (for me, anyway) of tabs & windows open, the system slows down to the point where I think "I must close all the Firefox pages and restart it". Occasionally Firefox has crashed but I've never understood why so just let it report the crash and restart itself.
I had no chance to kill firefox, system froze while I tried to issue the command.
Whenever I try to debug problems like this I find it can be helpful to ssh into the machine with the problem as soon as it is started, su to root and keep the session open in the background. Frequently when the problem machine subsequently 'hangs' it has proven to just be extremely sluggish and it has been possible to kill or suspend the most likely culprit process to recover the machine. Sometimes I have waited for half an hour or more whilst the command executes. Sometimes it is also possible to run things like top or strace through the ssh session to gather more information.
but you don't say which system version or DT or firefox
Yes, I do. See signature.
You're right in the letter of the law but not the spirit, IMHO. Many people don't notice the signature, or may not even display it to avoid taking offence at some of the things people post there. And the suspicion always remains about whether details in the signature are accurate for the system with the problem, as opposed to the system from which the message is being posted. So I think it's better to be explicit in the body of the message.
Firefox is the default version that comes with it:
MozillaFirefox-60.4.0-lp150.3.30.1.x86_64
Desktop is XFCE.
FWIW, I'm using the same OS and FF but run LXDE. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-support+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-support+owner@opensuse.org