On 09/12/2018 16.37, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 09/12/18 06:03 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
But since I upgraded to 15.0 a few weeks ago, I got this problem. And it is firefox the culprit.
I am running 42.3 and had similar thoughts. Now I'm not running with Dolphin and while things are better, it still freezes, but not nearly so much, and yes, killing FF still seems to release it.
Elsewhere I've read that there is a problem with the 4.19 kernel. Something to do with the networking component, but that may affect unix-sockets as well as internet connections. Supposedly this gets fixed in 4.20. Roll on 4.20 (there are tools to look at what unix sockets are active) (netstat, ss -xp, fuser, and especially 'lsof' because it can examine caching too) I'm still running FF 52.8 and was running that back in the 4.17 days when this wasn't a problem.
Honestly though, I think this is a kernel problem not a FF problem. Certainly if it happens with Chrome instead of FF and with Dolphin then what to they have in common?
It is a kernel problem, yes. Something in FF causes the kernel to go berseck into a loop of (guess) load-unload memory to swap. And mind, swapping in my machines is fast, it is on SSD. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)