On 2013-05-25 23:53:32 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > I use Iceweasel with "ulimit -v 3276800", otherwise it sometimes makes > the system freeze for several minutes due to swapping. > > Iceweasel crashed with: > > out of memory > zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped) firefox > > while according to a running htop, it was taking around 1.9 GB, i.e. > far less than the 3.2 GB limit! Well, unless it suddenly wanted more > than 1.3 GB (for what reason???) and could not handle the failure.
According to monit, during this time the load average increased to 28.8: Resource limit matched Service xvii.vinc17.org Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 23:35:33 Action: alert Host: xvii.vinc17.org Description: loadavg(1min) of 28.8 matches resource limit [loadavg(1min)>8.0] Your faithful employee, Monit It is normally around 0. > Here's the whole terminal output: > > (process:18173): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion > `sys_page_size == 0' failed > error: acr: An exception occurred. > TypeError: hiddenWindow.document.documentElement is null > resource://gre/modules/commonjs/sdk/frame/hidden-frame.js 73 > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "resource://gre/modules/NetUtil.jsm", line 140, in > aCallback(pipe.inputStream, aStatusCode, aRequest); [...] > File "resource://gre/modules/commonjs/sdk/frame/hidden-frame.js", line 73, > in makeHostFrame > namespaceURI: hiddenWindow.document.documentElement.namespaceURI, > NOTE: child process received `Goodbye', closing down Actually this part occurs just after starting Iceweasel. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org