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firefox-3.0 package

  1. Bug #235144
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 235144

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote : Re: [Bug 235144] Re: FF3 randomly locks up, creates sleeping processes that take up over 88 MB of memory

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