On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 19:21 +0530, Manish Kathuria wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 07:04 -0500, Renich Bon Ciric wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've been experiencing, lately, some total freezes. The computer just > > dies: > > - The mouse won't respond. > > - The keyboard won't respond. > > - X can't be restarted > > > > The only option is to hard-reset. Once done, firefox looses most of it's > > configuration options and sessions. It doesn't loose field history, > > history and bookmarks. > > > > I have the following addons: > > > > - Google sync > > - Google toolbar > > - Google notebook > > - Facebook toolbar. > > > > I've experienced problems even without these. Tried removing flash with > > no luck... > > > > Anybody experiencing the same problems? Any idea of what's the problem? > > > > Okay a similar thing has happened with me twice recently. I left my > laptop running F8 ( 2.6.24.4-64.fc8 x86_64 kernel) on with Firefox, > with multiple sites opened, Evolution and maybe some small applications > like a xterm. When I came back after 4-5 hours, I found that the system > was frozen and I could not access it either through the GUI where I was > working or through any of the consoles. None of the keys or key > combinations were working. I could ping it from the other system but > could not access it through SSH also and was forced to switch off the > power and reboot it. > > In the both the instances, after rebooting the system I examined the > system monitoring graphs I generate using a program called systemgraph > and discovered that over a 3 hour period: > > 1. The physical memory used increased to 2414 MB out of a total of 2508 > MB (as shown by free command). I have 2.5 GB of RAM installed. > > 2. The swap used had increased to 1999.32 MB against the available swap > space of 2047MB. > > 3. The CPU context switches had increased to a maximum of about 54,000 > per second as compared to the average of about 4500-5000. Similarly the > pages in and out had increased to about 1700 and 2300 per second against > the average values between 20-30 per second. > > 4. The disk I/O also showed a 100 times increase and the load average > also increased manifold > > 5. However, there was no significant change in number of processes or > number of open files. > > I tried to find out if there was any data regarding resource utilization > by various processes during this period but could not find any and > therefore I was unable to pinpoint the cause and was suspecting some > kernel bug. But looking at your mail, I think it could be firefox which > is causing the problem. However, no idea why. Maybe someone can explain > this. Which version of Firefox are you using? FF2 has known memory leak problems (in my case it would simply crash after a few days). FF3 seems much more stable. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
