Re: [gentoo-user] vBulletin site causes Konqueror to hang

[Alan McKinnon]

On Wednesday 03 March 2010 00:48:36 Mick wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 March 2010 20:37:15 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > There's a vBulletin forum I frequent:
> >
> > http://forum.thinkbike.co.za
> >
> > and my usual browser is Konqueror (just because kparts makes it so
> > convenient). Every so often, with no pattern I can find, this site hangs
> > Konqueror - cpu goes to 100% and the browser stays unresponsive.
> >
> > I've tried various tricks to see what is going on when it does this,
> >
> >  including strace, to no avail. I have a hunch this started when I
> >
> >  installed konq- plugins, I have these enabled:
> > Adblock
> > bookmarklets
> > Crashes Monitor
> > KTHML settings
> > Konqueror feed icon
> > Search bar
> > translate
> > User Agent Changer
> > Web Archiver
> >
> > My next step is to start the laborious process of disabling them one by
> > one
> >
> >  to see if it makes a difference. Meanwhile, does anyone have suggestions
> >  for clever trouble-shooting techniques to apply here?
> >
> > I doubt anyone will have a solution to hand, just some pointers to likely
> > things to check is all I'm after at this stage.
>
> Some of the animated gifs can start eating up resources.  Over-elaborate
> avatars can also have the same effect and when people start using both gifs
> and flash animations the there may be a combination that causes the
> problems you describe.  Anyway, just an idea.  Try it with an old machine
> and see if the symptoms get worse/sooner.

That's worth persuing. I thought of two things that triggers the crash, it's 
just not predictable:

1. Edit a reply and click "Post reply"
2. Click on the next page.

It's always one of those two things just before a freeze, which seems 
significant.

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