Have you had a chance to try any later version of Firefox (or rather
Iceweasel now)? Any improvement in leakiness? 

* s. keeling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Package: mozilla-firefox
> Version: 1.0.4-2sarge11
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> Hi.  Sorry to add to your troubles.  There sure are a lot of things on
> your plate.  :-(  It seems upstream ought to consider a complete re-
> write.
> 
> This morning, I sat down to a machine that (momentarily, about five
> minutes) wouldn't let me login.  I thought my monitor/video adaptor had
> fried themselves.  Eventually, I did get an Xscreensaver prompt, and 
> then all was well (after a couple of failed login attempts).  I'm running 
> Blackbox and Xscreensaver; no XDM/GDM/KDM involved.  I use: 
> 
>    /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin -a firefox -safe-mode \
>               -geometry 916x621+22+14
> 
> to start FF (that's from a "ps aux" listing).
> 
> logcheck reports this:
> 
>      --------------------------------
> Sep 27 07:24:55 heretic kernel: oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x1d2
> Sep 27 07:24:55 heretic kernel: DMA per-cpu:
> Sep 27 07:24:55 heretic kernel: cpu 0 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1
> Sep 27 07:24:55 heretic kernel: cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1
> Sep 27 07:24:55 heretic kernel: Normal per-cpu:
> Sep 27 07:24:55 heretic kernel: cpu 0 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16
> Sep 27 07:24:55 heretic kernel: cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16
> Sep 27 07:24:55 heretic kernel: HighMem per-cpu: empty
> Sep 27 07:24:55 heretic kernel:
> Sep 27 07:24:55 heretic kernel: Free pages:        3040kB (0kB HighMem)
> Sep 27 07:24:55 heretic kernel: Active:63118 inactive:59311 dirty:0 
> writeback:0 unstable:0 free:760 slab:2673 mapped:122150 pagetables:477
> Sep 27 07:24:55 heretic kernel: DMA free:1432kB min:20kB low:40kB high:60kB 
> active:6288kB inactive:5612kB present:16384kB
> Sep 27 07:24:55 heretic kernel: protections[]: 10 358 358
> Sep 27 07:24:55 heretic kernel: Normal free:1608kB min:696kB low:1392kB 
> high:2088kB active:246184kB inactive:231632kB present:506880kB
> Sep 27 07:24:55 heretic kernel: protections[]: 0 348 348
> Sep 27 07:24:55 heretic kernel: HighMem free:0kB min:128kB low:256kB 
> high:384kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB
> Sep 27 07:24:55 heretic kernel: protections[]: 0 0 0
> Sep 27 07:24:55 heretic kernel: DMA: 0*4kB 3*8kB 4*16kB 0*32kB 1*64kB 0*128kB 
> 1*256kB 0*512kB 1*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 1432kB
> Sep 27 07:24:55 heretic kernel: Normal: 64*4kB 1*8kB 2*16kB 1*32kB 0*64kB 
> 0*128kB 1*256kB 0*512kB 1*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 1608kB
> Sep 27 07:24:55 heretic kernel: HighMem: empty
> Sep 27 07:24:55 heretic kernel: Swap cache: add 423311, delete 423180, find 
> 362202/408288, race 0+0
> Sep 27 07:24:55 heretic kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 5663 
> (firefox-bin).
>      --------------------------------
> 
> I only had two tabs open.  System uptime is currently 72 days.  "ps aux"
> says mozilla-firefox VSZ == 163140, RSS == 83160.  FF was still running
> when I eventually got in.
> 
> I've .5 Gb RAM in this thing.  Compaq Deskpro, PIII-733 Mhz.
> 
> If I can supply additional info, please just ask.  Are there any
> additional logs I could supply that the binary version creates?  Should
> I use another command line switch which might create them?
> 
> BTW, Java on this box is Sun's jre: jre1.5.0_06, in case that helps.
> 
> Just another data point.  Hope it helps.  I also have these lying
> around, though neither page open was a flash page:
> 
> ii  libswfdec0.3   0.3.4-2sarge0. SWF (Macromedia Flash) decoder library
> ii  swf-player     0.3.4-2sarge0. SWF (Macromedia Flash) player
> 
> swf is very much frowned on around here, but I use them to try to help.
> That, and they let me watch World Cup snippets.  :-)
> 
> Bon chance.

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