On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 05:24:46PM -0500, Amit Kulkarni wrote: > Then I removed the vmmap diff and compiled kernel & a reboot later, > firefox crashes are gone.
Ofcourse, only a few days from now, this won't work anymore. May 20 is the planned vmmap day. Starting then, you won't be able to back out vmmap. The crashes in firefox can be because: - vmmap has a bug (very possible, since it is a big, complicated allocator) - firefox has a bug (very possible, since it is a big, complicated browser) - any of firefox' dependant libraries has a bug (very possible, as some are big, complicated libraries like X) The nice part is that: we don't really know which system is wrong and attempts to debug are sabotaged by developers that thing writing your own sigsegv handler makes you sexy and gets you girls. I could rant about this all day, but I'll shut up and instead get the emacs bug fixed on i386. -- Ariane
