On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 08:47:11AM -0400, Scott McEachern wrote:
> On 07/24/13 05:48, James Griffin wrote:
> >The crashes i've experiebced have been only since i installed some
> >extensions/plugins from Mozilla. I've removed them and the browser
> >is much better again. I don't know if anyone else has noticed
> >this. my ulimit -d is: 524288 I will increase it to to test and
> >see if it helps. I have to say, though, i've been using FF on
> >-current since last December and it's been pretty good. Crashes
> >have been few and only rencently.
>
> I used to have firefox crash on a daily basis, usually when I opened
> too many tabs in sites like IMDb, or especially, gmail. Without
> fail, opening a gmail tab would crash ffx and after that it wouldn't
> crash right away, but became painful to use.
>
> I also run about 14 addons, including adblockplus, noscript,
> ghostery, requestpolicy, etc.
>
> That was with a stock data size of 512M.
>
> Then one day, a long time ago, someone else complained of ffx
> crashes and landry@, again, asked what happens with a data size of
> 2G?
>
> I tried it, and miracle of miracles, no more ffx crashes. Gmail
> works just fine, I could open IMDb tabs to my heart's content, plus
> a bunch of others. I currently have about 20 tabs open in ffx to
> various sites (including gmail and IMDb), plus all my addons
> running, and I don't remember the last time ffx crashed on me.
>
> For me, the real question is whether the default user data size
> shouldn't be increased in this day and age of modern ("bloated", if
> you will) browsers.
That point has been a long-standing discussion among developers, and
a consensus hasn't been reached yet. Note that iirc, chromium wrapper
automatically bumps ulimit -d at startup to workaround such issues..
Still, firefox should properly backoff in situations of constrained
memory instead of exploding in flight.
Landry
