FF3 randomly locks up, creates sleeping processes that take up over 88 MB of memory

[chicobo329]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Occasionally Firefox locks up with no provocation. This happens regardless of the webpage I'm on. Sometimes it's a hassle to force quit firefox if it locks up. Attempting to restart Firefox sometimes makes sleeping processes in the background, sometimes using as much as 88 MB of memory. Sometimes still, Firefox will refuse to load up, instead creating sleeping background processes, multiple retries making multiple processes.

These problems happen randomly, I apologize that I cannot pinpoint how or when this happens.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue May 27 01:12:11 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686

[Dmitry Agafonov (dmitry-agafonov)]

Confirm.
Sometimes ff3 locks up with no visible reason but when I actively surfing the web.
Possible cause is memory management routines trying to be low on resources but fails.
Probably cache cleanup routines (sometimes ff3 freezes while doing lot of disk IO).

But in my cases program is getting alive after 30 sec to 2 minutes of freeze...

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 05:49:51AM -0000, Agafonov wrote:
> Confirm.
> Sometimes ff3 locks up with no visible reason but when I actively surfing the web.
> Possible cause is memory management routines trying to be low on resources but fails.
> Probably cache cleanup routines (sometimes ff3 freezes while doing lot of disk IO).
>
> But in my cases program is getting alive after 30 sec to 2 minutes of
> freeze...
>

most likely a dupe of the fsync io issue ... which is supposed to be
fixed in RC1 builds. Maybe help testing by installing them from
hardy-proposed

 status incomplete
 tag likely-dup

 - Alexander

[Mackenzie Morgan (maco.m)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Intrepid Ibex. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[chicobo329 (chicobo329)]

You know, I forgot about this page! I have the updated FF3 and Ubuntu and all is well, this problem is fixed now.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you chicobo329. Closing this bug due to your last comment regarding this being fixed with an update.