1082783 - OOM crash with a page from mjpg-streamer

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 882990

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[illumilor.e]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0
Build ID: 2014092000

Steps to reproduce:

Went to a website that streams mjpg pictures


Actual results:

Firefox had a memory leak that filled up 16gb of ram in a minute then locked up


Expected results:

Should not crash.

Comment 1

[Stefan Weiss [:sir_none]]

Hello,

can you please give us a specific page?
this would help us to reproduce the problem in detail.

Comment 2

[illumilor.e]

Any page that streams mjpg pictures. 
Viewing any page created by
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mjpg-streamer/
will recreate the crash.

Comment 3

[Loic]

This page works for me on Win 7. Should I crash on that page?

Comment 4

[Andre Klapper]

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mjpg-streamer/ does not crash for me.

If it crashes for you, please follow the steps on http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Firefox%20crashes and report back here. Thanks!

Comment 5

[illumilor.e]

"This page works for me on Win 7. Should I crash on that page?"

Because any page created by that program or any other streaming jpg page will cause my 16gb of ram to fill up in minutes and then the system freezes up afterwords. It happens when Im in windows 7 as well.

Comment 6

[Andre Klapper]

so is there a public testcase somewhere (link)? Or is anybody trying to reproduce expected to use that application you linked to to create a testcase first? Steps to reproduce are still unclear...

Comment 7

[illumilor.e]

It happens on any streaming jpg site, so step one is to set up a page that has that, either from installing the mjpg streamer app or anything else that creates it. The site that I noticed this on  Step 2 is to then go to that page and wait for maybe ten minutes depending on the size of the page. Step 3 is to notice that once your ram has been used up by firefox, that your hard drive is now thrashing and your machine is locking up. Then either firefox crashes or the machine completely freezes. Again, this happens in kubuntu and win7 when using firefox. I tested it in chromium, but that doesn't even display the stream at all.

Comment 8

[Rosy]

Are you specifically clicking somewhere on that link?
Does your browser crash as soon as you hit enter after pasting that link on your URL tab?

How are you checking your RAM?

Comment 9

[illumilor.e]

"Are you specifically clicking somewhere on that link?
Does your browser crash as soon as you hit enter after pasting that link on your URL tab?"

It would help if you would read either my comments or the bug description, rather than just blindly thinking that any url posted is what causes the crash.

"How are you checking your RAM?"

With top

Comment 10

[Rosy]

Interesting comment. You suggested it happened with any website that streams mjpg pictures.

I am unable to reproduce.

Comment 11

[illumilor.e]

And the link http://sourceforge.net/projects/mjpg-streamer/ obviously doesn't stream jpg pictures. It is the program that you install and then you go to 127.0.0.1 for a test case.

Comment 12

[Andre Klapper]

> Went to a website that streams mjpg pictures

are not really helpful steps to reproduce, because I have no idea how to find such a website.
Please provide a public testcase.

Comment 13

[illumilor.e]

I have provided detailed instructions on how to recreate such a website, multiple times. What part do you not understand?

Comment 14

[Loic]

We need a full self-contained testcase, we don't have any extra time to create a complicated testcase due to hundreds of bugs filed every day.

Comment 15

[Andre Klapper]

Don't have time to create testcases - if you want a bug to get fixed, please make it as easy as possible for developers by providing a testcase or even a patch to fix it. Otherwise the bug likely will not get fixed.

Comment 16

[illumilor.e]

My isp doesn't allow me to set up servers, so I can't provide a direct link. If you are on ubuntu installing the deb, running the command, and pointing firefox at it would take less than a couple of minutes. If any of you have any idea of how to make an easier testcase, tell me.