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On 2019-07-15T13:38:27+00:00 Timj-8 wrote:

Created attachment 9078136
Screenshot from 2019-07-15 15-33-31.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0)
Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Start Firefox-68.0 (fresh profile) on Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS with X11 on
Linux 4.15.0-50-generic x86_64. (Note, this behaviour has also been
observed with FF-67 versions.)

2. Start an application with libchromiumcontent >= 69.0.3497.128, e.g. by 
starting electron-4 (v69.0.3497.128) or electron-5 (v73.0.3683.121) or 
gooogle-chrome (v75.0.3770.100). Example:
         npm i electron@4 && node_modules/electron/dist/electron

3. The second application can be closed immediately, starting it is
enough already to trigger FF.

Note, libchromiumcontent v66.0.3359.181 (from electron-3) does *NOT*
trigger FF.


Actual results:

Firefox uses up *all* CPU cores (8 here) at 100% for several seconds, 
observable e.g. via `htop` with thread view.
Even exiting the libchromiumcontent using application immediately doesn't cure 
FF from overloading all CPU cores for several more seconds.
If you happen to have `about:performance` opened during the overload situation, 
it will display *only* the "Task Manager" row, until it recovers from the 
overload situation, after that point it also lists the other rows for 
additional tabs again.


Expected results:

A) FF CPU usage should not be triggered by libchromiumcontent using 
applications.
B) Tab "about:performance" should actually indicate where the CPU cycles are 
being wasted.

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On 2019-07-23T10:55:55+00:00 Aflorinescu wrote:

Thanks Tim for the report! Could you please be more specific with the
steps to reproduce?

npm i electron@4 && node_modules/electron/dist/electron opens for me:
Electron v4.2.8Chromium v69.0.3497.128Node v10.11.0v8 v6.9.427.31-electron.0

Not sure how to trigger firefox to load when starting electron.

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On 2019-07-23T18:02:21+00:00 Timj-8 wrote:

(In reply to Adrian Florinescu [:adrian_sv] from comment #1)
> Thanks Tim for the report! Could you please be more specific with the steps 
> to reproduce? 
> 
> npm i electron@4 && node_modules/electron/dist/electron opens for me:
> Electron v4.2.8Chromium v69.0.3497.128Node v10.11.0v8 v6.9.427.31-electron.0
> 
> Not sure how to trigger firefox to load when starting electron.

Hi Adrian,
starting electrong (or a new version of google-chrome) is enough already.

If you cannot notice the overload (are you using X11?) can you give it a shot 
under Ubuntu 18.04?
Or let me know what dist you're testing on, so I can give that a shot as well.

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On 2019-07-24T06:40:29+00:00 Aflorinescu wrote:

Apologies, I've tested with Ubuntu 16.04 and I haven't noticed a Firefox
process starting or any overload; that's why I assumed I was missing a
step or two. Sure, will give it a try on Ubuntu 18.04 and post back if I
get a positive result.

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On 2019-08-02T09:09:30+00:00 Aflorinescu wrote:

Slipped my todo list, adding a NI to get back to this.

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On 2019-08-04T00:18:38+00:00 Timj-8 wrote:

I'm still seeing massive CPU overload with Firefox 68.0.1 and e.g.
electron-6.

Attaching gdb to a running /usr/lib/firefox/firefox shows that, as soon
as electron is started, the firefox process gets a *massive* amount of
SIGSYS signals. Apparently all due to looking for font files. And each
firefox process does gets these signals which seems to cause the
overload, we're talking about ca 12000 signals on my system, probably
due to the great number of font files I have installed here. Here are
some excerpts from the debugging session:

Thread 1 "Web Content" received signal SIGSYS, Bad system call.
0x00007f8d210fd775 in __GI___xstat (vers=<optimized out>, name=0x7f8cff489aa0 
"/etc/fonts/fonts.conf", buf=0x7fffe2acfb70) at 
../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/wordsize-64/xstat.c:35
Thread 1 "Web Content" received signal SIGSYS, Bad system call.
0x00007f8d210fd775 in __GI___xstat (vers=<optimized out>, name=0x7f8cff678d00 
"/etc/fonts/conf.d", buf=0x7fffe2acfb70) at 
../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/wordsize-64/xstat.c:35

etc. Other locations/syscalls:

0x00007f8d210fd775 in __GI___xstat (vers=<optimized out>, name=0x7f8d056b6a30 
"/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-antialias.conf", buf=0x7fffe2acfb70)
    at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/wordsize-64/xstat.c:35
0x00007f8d210fd775 in __GI___xstat (vers=<optimized out>, name=0x7f8d056b6b20 
"/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-hinting-slight.conf", buf=0x7fffe2acfb70)
    at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/wordsize-64/xstat.c:35
0x00007f8d210fd775 in __GI___xstat (vers=<optimized out>, name=0x7f8d056b6b50 
"/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", buf=0x7fffe2acfb70)
0x00007f8d210fd775 in __GI___xstat (vers=<optimized out>, name=0x7f8d056b6b80 
"/etc/fonts/conf.d/11-lcdfilter-default.conf", buf=0x7fffe2acfb70)
0x00007f8d210fe247 in __access (file=0x7f8cff695d40 
"/etc/fonts/conf.d/20-unhint-small-dejavu-lgc-sans.conf", type=4) at 
../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/access.c:27
0x00007f8d210fdd19 in __libc_open64 (file=0x7f8cff695ec0 
"/etc/fonts/conf.d/20-unhint-small-dejavu-lgc-serif.conf", oflag=524288) at 
../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/open64.c:47
0x00007f8d210fdd19 in __libc_open64 (file=0x7f8cff443c40 
"/var/cache/fontconfig//3830d5c3ddfd5cd38a049b759396e72e-le64.cache-7", 
oflag=524290)
0x00007f8d210fd775 in __GI___xstat (vers=<optimized out>, name=0x7f8cff69bc40 
"/usr/share/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/lm/lmmonocaps10-regular.otf", 
buf=0x7fffe2acf9b0)
0x00007f8d21b95dae in __libc_open64 (file=0x7f8cff6f89c0 
"/usr/share/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/lm/lmroman9-italic.otf", oflag=0) at 
../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/open64.c:47
0x00007f8d21b95dae in __libc_open64 (file=0x7f8cff658d80 
"/usr/share/fonts/cMap/.resource/Identity-UTF16-H", oflag=0) at 
../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/open64.c:47
0x00007f8d210fe247 in __access (file=0x7f8d05880060 "/var", type=0) at 
../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/access.c:27
0x00007f8d210fe247 in __access (file=0x7f8d05880068 "", type=0) at 
../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/access.c:27


etcpp. There are literally thausands of "received signal SIGSYS, Bad system 
call." messages. The last line pasted above looks interesting also, note that 
the path is empty, like some script going bonkers...

So it's probably something in recent libchromiumcontent versions that
causes FF to process/search/etc all font files on the system, and for
some reason each of those results in a "signal SIGSYS, Bad system call".

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On 2019-09-03T20:06:48+00:00 Zhart wrote:

The same problem.
Firefox 68.* and Chrom*/Electron on Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 19.04.

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On 2019-09-12T03:40:01+00:00 David Lechner wrote:

Possibly related debian bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-
bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=909818

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On 2019-09-12T03:52:17+00:00 David Lechner wrote:

More info: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1076412/firefox-freezing-
with-100-cpu-usage-for-30-seconds-when-launching-chromium

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On 2019-09-12T10:47:55+00:00 Timj-8 wrote:

(In reply to David Lechner (:dlech) from comment #8)
> More info: 
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/1076412/firefox-freezing-with-100-cpu-usage-for-30-seconds-when-launching-chromium

Thank you for the links. One of the discussion comments suggest the
following to also trigger the CPU burning in FF:

    mkdir -p ~/.fonts/Library/ && touch ~/.fonts/Library/

That actually works for me, *without* starting any libchromiumcontent
app, so it's indeed due to fontconfig.

I just installed fontconfig+libfontconfig1 2.13.1-2ubuntu2 (the disco
packages work on bionic), and that majorly reduces the problem. If
Firefox has several tabs opened, there is still a spike that can be seen
in CPU usage when libchromiumcontent starts (or with touch
~/.fonts/Library/), but its now only around 1 second, so you have to
look for it to notice.

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** Changed in: firefox
       Status: Unknown => New

** Changed in: firefox
   Importance: Unknown => Medium

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #909818
   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=909818

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