On 03/24/10 15:06, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:32:40 +0000
"O. Hartmann"<ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
Since the introduction of Thunderbird 3.0 and Firefox 3.6 I see
spontanous crashes/coredumps of both thunderbird and firefox. Interingly
Firefox 3.5.X works well on he same platform.
The platform is a FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE/amd64 (r205536: Tue Mar 23 22:19:04
CET 2010), SMP box with 8GB of RAM, QuadCore Intel Q6600 on a P35-based
motherboard.
Thunderbird 3 crashes rarely compared to Firefox 3. The longer the
application thunderbird runs, the higher the likelyhood the app crashes
and vanishes. Sometimes this happens immediately after starting
thunderbird, sometimes it takes its few minutes or half an hour.
Firefox 3 is sensitive to its pull-down menus or requester showing up in
some situations. I can provoke a crash by clicking onto a pull-down-menu
in firefox 3, it immediately dumps a core.
If you suspect the graphics card's driver is at fault then I would try
linux-opera or even linux-firefox and see whether it also dies when you
use a drop-down menu.
Another possibility would be to set hw.physmem to say 3G or 4G in
loader.conf and see whether that affects thunderbird/firefox. Who
knows, there may some weird problem caused by all that memory? That
would a fairly quick and cheap way to test this.
--
Gary Jennejohn
You're right, I'll test this as soon as I'm back in my lab.
Oliver Hartmann
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