On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Ryan VanderMeulen <rya...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/6/2015 4:34 PM, Vladan D wrote: > >> Background: Firefox shutdown hangs are turned into shutdown crashes by a >> watchdog thread [1] that forces a crash if shutdown hasn't completed within >> 1 minute. Thanks to the watchdog and the Windows profile unlocker [2], >> shutdown hangs aren't as frustrating as they used to be. However, shutdown >> hangs might still be causing data loss and they are indicative of >> potentially-serious bugs in the code. >> >> >> According to this graph of Firefox crash rate history, shutdown hangs >> (crashes) make up about one third of all browser crashes [3]: >> >> >> https://crash-analysis.mozilla.com/rkaiser/crash-report-tools/longtermgraph/?fxrel >> >> I've been told shutdown hangs often don't get enough attention. >> Should fixing shutdown hangs be higher priority? >> And if so, should we allow features with shutdown hangs to be released? >> >> >> Notes: >> 1. Force Firefox crash if shutdown hangs >> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1038342 >> 2. win32 implementation of nsIProfileUnlocker >> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=286355 >> 3. The graph above shows that the overall crash rate jumped up by roughly >> a third when the watchdog code shipped in Firefox 36. Hover over the "36" >> box on the blue line >> >> > Windows mochitest-bc shutdown hangs have been on of the top oranges in our > automation for months now. See bug 1121145. Would be great if we could get > more eyes on the problem. > > -Ryan > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > The last five logs in that bug are all hanging in QuotaClient code. I'll take a look. - Kyle _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform