180368 - hang (inside libmozjs.so?) while composing mail

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Darin Fisher]

2002-11-14-08 linux trunk build.  running on redhat 7.3.

steps:
1) composing mail message
2) clicked to add new cc, and mozilla hung... spiking the CPU.

(i was lucky enough to be able to grab a screenshot of the email i was composing!)

then i fired up GDB and collected some stack traces, attaching 3 different times
to see how the stack varied.  no symbols of course, but it at least helps to see
what libraries are implicated.

Comment 1

[Darin Fisher]

Attachment: thread info and stack traces collected using GDB

Comment 2

[Darin Fisher]

of course, it really is impossible to determine in which library the hang is. 
it could of course be in libjsdom.so, libgkcontent.so, or any of the other libs
on the stack.  difficult to say for certain with only 3 samples (now i wish i
had collected more).

Comment 3

[Andrew Schultz]

darin: were you perhaps seeing bug 180285 (looping JS seems to be implicated
there as well)?

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Darin Fisher, any reason to leave this old bug open?

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

closing incomplete