I am using 3.6 now and can't re-test. Sorry. On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:35 PM, Tyler Downer <tyler.dow...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Reporter, are you still seeing this issue with Firefox 3.6.13 or later in > safe mode or a fresh profile? If not, please close. These links can help you > in your testing. > http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode > http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/410096 > > Title: > Swap causes 100% IOWait and renders system useless > > Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser: > New > Status in “firefox-3.0” package in Ubuntu: > Triaged > Status in “firefox-3.5” package in Ubuntu: > Triaged > > Bug description: > Every once in a while my system becomes completely absorbed by IOWait, > which I believe is when swapping occurs. I have 2GB RAM and it rarely > uses more than 1GB of RAM. I have tried changing vm.swappiness to 0 > without any success as well. > > I would love to provide a `pidstat -d` output or similar, but > seriously the system becomes completely unresponsive for long periods > of time. It displays mouse animations and continues to play musing in > Pandora or Rhythmbox (although it may stutter) and when I regain > control of the system there are no processes with unreasonable > statistics. I don't believe it's related to update-apt-xapian-index, > which I think everyone hates and is poorly designed. I have tried JFS > and XFS, and this hasn't made a difference. > > Anoyne care to actually find out what is causing this? IOWait related > issues are a huge problem and nobody seems to care. Any debugging tips > would be much appreciated, but remember that I cannot execute anything > when this is happeneing. > > I suspect that the kernel page flushing (kpdflush?) may be the cause. > Anyone think it would help to put swap as a file on the partition for > better IO scheduling? > > Thanks! > > To unsubscribe from this bug, go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/410096/+subscribe > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/410096 Title: Swap causes 100% IOWait and renders system useless -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
