On 23 Nov 2023 at 18:53, Michael Hennebry wrote: Date sent: Thu, 23 Nov 2023 18:53:41 -0600 (CST) From: Michael Hennebry <hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: noloader@xxxxxxxxx, Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: firefox keeps freezing on me Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > On Thu, 23 Nov 2023, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 2:21?PM Michael Hennebry > > <hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> By now, I am fairly sure that the reason firefox freezes > >> on me is neither a lack of memory nor a lack of CPU. > >> My inference is that it is waiting for something. > >> How do I discover what? > > > > I would investigate the virtual memory system. That's based on your > > reply to Roger Heflin, and the 8GB of RAM and no swap file. Maybe > Might want to run firefox from a command line and see if it reports anything. I don't get a freeze, but do see this, perhaps something will be shown? firefox ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment. ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment. [Parent 346000, Main Thread] WARNING: Failed to call GetIdletime(): GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.Mutter.IdleMonitor was not provided by any .service files : 'glib warning', file /builddir/build/BUILD/firefox-120.0/toolkit/xre/nsSigHandlers.cpp:1 87 ** (firefox:346000): WARNING **: 11:01:58.425: Failed to call GetIdletime(): GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.Mutter.IdleMonitor was not provided by any .service files > You mean this: > Michael Hennebry wrote (some whitespace deleted): > > $ free -h > > total used free shared buff/cache available > > Mem: 7.7Gi 4.1Gi 882Mi 572Mi 2.7Gi 2.7Gi > > Swap: 7.7Gi 98Mi 7.6Gi > > $ I have no swap partition. > ? > I'd have thought 882Mi free and 2.7Gi available would be good. > BTW I have a lot of tabs, but not a lot of videos. > Mostly my tabs are things to read. > > > start with `vm.overcommit_memory = 2` in `/etc/sysctl.conf`. The 2 > > says, "say no if we don't have the memory". > > From the persistence of the belief that I am running out of memory, > I infer one of two scenarios is assumed: > 1: firefox is waiting on memory is was told it has, but might never get. > 2: firefox has been told memory is unavailable, > but does not do anything sensible with that information. > The output from free would seem to preclude both scenarios. > > What is the state of a process that is waiting on commited, > but unavailable, memory? > > -- > Michael hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > "I was just thinking about the life of a pumpkin. Grow up in the sun, > happily entwined with others, and then someone comes along, > cuts you open, and rips your guts out." -- Buffy > -- > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue +------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired) mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxx mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
