1167444 - Crashes with google perftools malloc library

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Memory Allocator, defect)

Description

[Yuri]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2311.135 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

$ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/lib/libtcmalloc_minimal.so /usr/local/bin/firefox 

(process:78731): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed
FoxyProxy settingsDir: /home/yuri/.mozilla/firefox/vtvx426v.Default User/foxyproxy.xml
FoxyProxy settingsDir: /home/yuri/.mozilla/firefox/vtvx426v.Default User/foxyproxy.xml
src/tcmalloc.cc:278] Attempt to free invalid pointer 0x82ae300a0 
Abort trap




Actual results:

Attempt to free invalid pointer


Expected results:

It seems like this is a very easy way to fix some memory problem.

Comment 1

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

LD_PRELOADING an alternative allocator is not expected to work, because of the close-ish integration with jemalloc. If you want to play with other allocators, you need to play by the rules, build Firefox with --enable-replace-malloc (that's not enabled on release builds, but is enabled on nightly), and create a replace-malloc library containing tcmalloc. Old instructions are on http://glandium.org/blog/?p=2848.