On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 02:01:08AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Rob Owens wrote: > > I recently had issues with iceweasel using 80% of my CPU. I tried > > upgrading from 3.something to 10.something in the mozilla.debian.net > > repos. That didn't fix it. > > > > I remembered that I had a kernel upgrade recently (from the backports > > repo), and I had never rebooted. Rebooting fixed my iceweasel issue. > > Firefox consumed 100% cpu? And it was repeatable? You likely hit the > recent linux kernel leap second bug[1]. FWIW it hit me too. Perhaps > humorously I didn't think it was a kernel mutex problem because > Firefox has so often consumed 100% for no good reason. :-) > Actually it was between 60% and 90% -- typically 80% or higher. I noticed it for at least a week, until I rebooted. I tried disabling all addons, just in case, but the problem didn't go away until a reboot.
I'll check out that leap second bug. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120712152916.ga28...@aurora.owens.net
