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Yes, while this is not immediately apparent what you're seeing here is an increase in OOM crashes and Fission users might be affected. >95% of the crashes here are coming from 32-bit users where the crashed process seem to have run out of virtual address space. That explains the lack of symbols in libxul. On 32-bit builds we set aside a chunk of virtual memory for Breakpad which we release upon hitting a crash, hoping that it's enough to let dbghelp.dll do its job while writing the minidump. In these cases apparently it's not.

I don't think there's anything actionable here, most of the crashes are on 32-bit capable OSes so while the underlying hardware seem to support 64-bit operation the users wouldn't even be able to switch to a 64-bit build because of the OS.
Yes, while this is not immediately apparent what you're seeing here is an increase in OOM crashes and Fission users might be affected. >95% of the crashes here are coming from 32-bit users were the crashed process seem to have run out of virtual address space. That explains the lack of symbols in libxul. On 32-bit builds we set aside a chunk of virtual memory for Breakpad which we release upon hitting a crash, hoping that it's enough to let dbghelp.dll do its job while writing the minidump. In these cases apparently it's not.

I don't think there's anything actionable here, most of the crashes are on 32-bit capable OSes so while the underlying hardware seem to support 64-bit operation the users wouldn't even be able to switch to a 64-bit build because of the OS.

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