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
>
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The last five logs in that bug are all hanging in QuotaClient code.  I'll
take a look.

- Kyle
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