1099090 - getDeviceStorage yields OOM

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[André Jaenisch]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/38.0.2125.122 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

In my Alcatel OneTouch Fire running Firefox OS v1.3 I inserted a 32 GiB SD card which is almost full (30 GiB).
I can open any app searching my SD card: PDF viewer, File Manager, Firetext etc.


Actual results:

After I get some results (lucky case) the app crashes.

While searching the SD card, the UI is unresponsive (synchronous call?). I assume an OOM.


Expected results:

I'd like to have a paging mechanism or the option to load only N bytes into memory, whereby N is defined by the app developer.
This way a reasonable value can be set for the hardware.
Otherwise GiB of data seem to be loaded into MiB of RAM …

Comment 1

[André Jaenisch]

As tested a few minutes ago, Firetext managed it to not crash.

However, I'd like to specify the API further.

Comment 2

[Joshua Smith [:joshua-s]]

One way to handle this might be to implement a "deep" parameter for DeviceStorage.enumerate(). If "deep" is "true," then DeviceStorage.enumerate() will return the contents of the directory specified by "path," and the contents of its sub-directories. If "deep" is "false," DeviceStorage.enumerate() will only return the immediate children of the "path" directory.

"deep" could default to "true" to be backwards-compatible.

Comment 3

[tfe]

The "deep" option is a real need!

Comment 4

[BMO Automation]

Firefox OS is not being worked on