70458 - Unlimited memory usage at the site.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Mathias Menzel-Nielsen]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17 i686; en-US; 0.8) Gecko/20010215
BuildID:    2001021503

if loading http://www.pcgames.de the system crashes totally on different pc's
and different kernelversions. (Tested 2.2.17 and 2.4)
Ive never seen something like this on Linux before SYSLOG: kernel: VM:
do_try_to_free_pages failed for XF86_SVGA; kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages
failed for kswapd           this goes on for every process which is running and
the reset key is only thing which works!!!!!!!!!!

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Go to http://www.pcgames.de

Actual Results:  The complete System crashes!
And this on stable Linux

Expected Results:  show the page

part of the syslog:

 kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd
 kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for ascloc
 last message repeated 29 times
...
and so on

System hangs

Comment 1

[Martin Horwath]

*** Bug 70459 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

When I try this on linux, the browser starts using up memory very quickly,
allocating over 300M of memory within 10 seconds.  The symptoms described by the
reporter are a result of all system memory and swap being allocated (and waiting
a bit more would have caused the kernel's virtual memory system to kill the
mozilla process).

I see the following assertion:

###!!! ASSERTION: attempt to create circular frame list: 'aNextSibling != this',
file nsFrame.cpp, line 2200
###!!! Break: at file nsFrame.cpp, line 2200

right before the memory usage becomes ridiculous.

Attaching a stack trace of where the browser is (hit C-c in gdb and then 'where').

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Attachment: where we seem to be

Comment 4

[karnaze (gone)]

Moving to m0.9.1 and reassigning to waterson.

Comment 5

[karnaze (gone)]

Reassigning to waterson.

Comment 6

[Koike Kazuhiko]

I got "kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed" when I opened a very large
spam(over 1M).

Comment 7

[Chris Waterson]

This (http://www.pcgames.de/) is working fine for me on a Linux build from
today, 2001-06-20. Could have been fixed by any number of things.