| 1 |
Short time line of what happened: |
| 2 |
|
| 3 |
On January 28, I was doing some playing around with eye-candy on my X |
| 4 |
desktop, and started running animations (from Xscreensaver) as by |
| 5 |
desktop background. At the same time I was browsing the internet using |
| 6 |
firefox-2.0.0.1. The operation of the desktop was smooth and CPU usage |
| 7 |
hardly ever went above 30% (sporadic spikes when I load new pages). I |
| 8 |
was monitoring the CPU use because I want to make sure that the |
| 9 |
eye-candy won't affect day-to-day operation of the desktop. |
| 10 |
|
| 11 |
On January 29, I upgrade firefox from 2.0.0.1 to 2.0.0.1-r2. (My box |
| 12 |
is on ~x86) |
| 13 |
|
| 14 |
I don't remember whether the web browsing experience is any different. |
| 15 |
Since I wasn't paying attention. |
| 16 |
|
| 17 |
On Febuary 2nd, I upgrade xorg from 7.1 to 7.2, which also pulled in |
| 18 |
an upgrade for xorg-server, libXdamage, and other things. |
| 19 |
|
| 20 |
Starting yesterday (the 3rd of Feb), I noticed lock-ups when ever |
| 21 |
firefox is open. At first I thought it was the fault of the animated |
| 22 |
background, but then I found out that it still happened if I started a |
| 23 |
no-frills, barebone fvwm session. I tried almost all of my other X |
| 24 |
applications, and none of them had these behaviour (mplayer, inkscape, |
| 25 |
gimp, abiword included). |
| 26 |
|
| 27 |
When I start firefox, the cpu use for X shots up to 90+ percent (for |
| 28 |
X, not for firefox) for several minutes, and everytime I open a new |
| 29 |
tab X cpu use goes up to 90+ percent for several minutes, during which |
| 30 |
firefox is completely unresponsive, and xterms that I opened have a |
| 31 |
lag of round 0.5 - 2 seconds between keypress and character appearing |
| 32 |
on screen. |
| 33 |
|
| 34 |
Basically, firefox would, every now and then, cause my entire desktop |
| 35 |
to seize up for minutes at a time. |
| 36 |
|
| 37 |
I took a look at b.g.o., and the closest thing I found was a case |
| 38 |
where the solution was to change to a sane set of CFLAGs an to unmerge |
| 39 |
the known-to-be-unstable gplflash?? (can't remember the name, an OSS |
| 40 |
attempt at reproducing flash, was removed from portage recently, |
| 41 |
possibly because the adobe takeover of flashplayer). |
| 42 |
|
| 43 |
I don't even know if this is actually a bug or some stupid |
| 44 |
misconfiguration on my part. Any ideas of what I can check before I |
| 45 |
possibly make an ass of myself on b.g.o. by having a problem that I |
| 46 |
don't really know how to describe well. |
| 47 |
|
| 48 |
Thanks, |
| 49 |
|
| 50 |
W |
| 51 |
-- |
| 52 |
"The suit into which the man's body had been stuffed looked |
| 53 |
as if it's only purpose in life was to demonstrate how |
| 54 |
difficult it was to get this sort of body into a suit. " |
| 55 |
Sortir en Pantoufles: up 58 days, 16:35 |
| 56 |
-- |
| 57 |
gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
Archives