Re: killall firefox-bin

2008-06-29 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel 
I wrote:

 Just writing this down gives me an idea: maybe it is a memory 
 leak thing. Next time it happens I'll check free. Hadn't
 thought of doing that so far..

OK. It happened again. Iceweasel totally frozen. free says:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ free
  total  usedfree  shared  buffers   cached
Mem: 516128496924   19204   020524   216632
-/+ buffers/cache: 259768  256360
Swap:97992488  979836

OK. I do killall firefox-bin. Restart iceweasel; it works fine
again. free now says:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ free
  total  usedfree  shared  buffers   cached
Mem: 516128445980   70148   021024   193668
-/+ buffers/cache: 231288  284840
Swap:97992488  979836

Not a great deal of difference I think, apart from the Mem free
value (but I always understood that the free -/+ buffers/cache
value was more important). Does this give any clues?

Regards, Jan




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killall firefox-bin

2008-06-20 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel 
At least once a day I have to give the command killall
firefox-bin, because the systems just about freezes (at least the
browser does), and weird things happen to the X display. Do others
have the same experience?

Iceweasel as is it now unwisely called by Debian (although
according to ps aux the running process is still firefox-bin)
seems to be unstable somehow. I don't know why. I can't predict
when this freezing will happen, so I can't file a bug about it;
it just happens, about one time per day.

Regards, Jan


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Re: killall firefox-bin

2008-06-20 Thread Sam Kuper 
2008/6/20 Jan Willem Stumpel [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 Iceweasel as is it now unwisely called by Debian


It's not entirely unwise. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_conflict_between_Debian_and_Mozilla

Sam

Re: killall firefox-bin

2008-06-20 Thread Nuno Magalhães 
The only ill-experience i have so far is when viewing a particular
website, fixefox messes up the window completely, it's barely usable.
But all i need to do is close that tab; no freezes. I am using the
unstable branch though.

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Re: killall firefox-bin

2008-06-20 Thread Ron Johnson 
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On 06/20/08 08:09, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
 At least once a day I have to give the command killall
 firefox-bin, because the systems just about freezes (at least the
 browser does), and weird things happen to the X display. Do others
 have the same experience?
 
 Iceweasel as is it now unwisely called by Debian (although
 according to ps aux the running process is still firefox-bin)
 seems to be unstable somehow. I don't know why. I can't predict
 when this freezing will happen, so I can't file a bug about it;
 it just happens, about one time per day.

You don't tell us which Debian branch and version of IW you are using.

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Re: killall firefox-bin

2008-06-20 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi 
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:

 At least once a day I have to give the command killall
 firefox-bin, because the systems just about freezes (at least the
 browser does), and weird things happen to the X display. Do others
 have the same experience?
 
 Iceweasel as is it now unwisely called by Debian (although
 according to ps aux the running process is still firefox-bin)
 seems to be unstable somehow. I don't know why. I can't predict
 when this freezing will happen, so I can't file a bug about it;
 it just happens, about one time per day.

Is there flash on the web pages you are visiting? Did you try running
iceweasel with -safe-mode option and disable all the addons, extensions
etc.,?

raju
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Re: killall firefox-bin

2008-06-20 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel 
Ron Johnson wrote:
 You don't tell us which Debian branch and version of IW you are
 using.

I am using Sid, but I still use the testing version of IW
(2.0.0.14). The Sid version is at the moment a little bit *too*
unstable (for systems with an ATI video card: see bug 485917).
So my experience with the unexplained freezing of IW is with
2.0.0.14 (and possibly some of its recent predecessors).

The weird things with the X display I mentioned occur when I try
to move the window with the dead (or possibly only hibernating)
Iceweasel in it. It leaves pieces of itself, and of overlying
windows, all over the place. The most annoying thing is that I
cannot determine what triggers this, apart from that it happens
after IW has been in use for a while.

Just writing this down gives me an idea: maybe it is a memory leak
thing. Next time it happens I'll check free. Hadn't thought of
doing that so far..

Regards, Jan


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