Hi Eric. I'm still running Sarge/stable and aptitude has since upgraded M-F to 1.0.4-2sarge15. I've not seen a reoccurence of the phenomenon. It was a one time thing.
I suppose if Iceweasel has hit backports I could try that, but this seems such an intermittent flaw there's no telling what that would prove. Incoming from Eric Dorland: > 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. > > -- > Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6 > -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Please don't Cc: me. - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]