On Monday, July 6, 2015 at 3:52:39 PM UTC-5, Kyle Huey wrote: > 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
Bug 1160459 was filed on the QuotaClient problem, it's a parent of the test failure bug. There's some discussion in there about the problem which you were involved in fyi. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
