191044 - Mozilla crashed/hung when I was trying to compose an email and open another window for browsing at the same time ..

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 169777

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Karthik Krishnamoorthy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.76C-CCK-MCD  [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.9 sun4u)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0

Memory leaks that consumes all the resources in my system .. 

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on compose mail, compose a mail (do not send it )
2. Open a browser and open a url like google.com or open the webpage editor
3. Mozilla just hangs and consumes all the resources in the system	


Actual Results:  
Mozilla crashed/hung ..



Expected Results:  
shoud lhave worked as normal

71 processes:  68 sleeping, 1 running, 1 zombie, 1 on cpu
CPU states:  0.0% idle, 62.7% user, 37.3% kernel,  0.0% iowait,  0.0% swap
Memory: 384M real, 5928K free, 402M swap in use, 871M swap free

  PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE   TIME    CPU COMMAND
29266 kk101798   7   0    0  326M  230M run     7:31 72.50% mozilla-bin71
processes:  68 sleeping, 1 running, 1 zombie, 1 on cpu
CPU states:  0.0% idle, 62.7% user, 37.3% kernel,  0.0% iowait,  0.0% swap
Memory: 384M real, 5928K free, 402M swap in use, 871M swap free

  PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE   TIME    CPU COMMAND
29266 kk101798   7   0    0  326M  230M run     7:31 72.50% mozilla-bin


When you let mozilla continue to run 

71 processes:  68 sleeping, 1 running, 1 zombie, 1 on cpu
CPU states:  0.0% idle, 69.1% user, 30.9% kernel,  0.0% iowait,  0.0% swap
Memory: 384M real, 6344K free, 659M swap in use, 613M swap free

  PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE   TIME    CPU COMMAND
29266 kk101798   7   0    0  582M  239M run    17:11 88.20% mozilla-bin

It reaches the above size and consumes almost 100 % of the cpu. 

and continuing to let it run reaches this state 

71 processes:  68 sleeping, 1 running, 1 zombie, 1 on cpu
CPU states:  0.0% idle, 19.1% user,  4.0% kernel, 76.9% iowait,  0.0% swap
Memory: 384M real, 6288K free, 1172M swap in use, 99M swap free

  PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE   TIME    CPU COMMAND
29266 kk101798   7  49    0 1094M  241M run    19:53 14.33% mozilla-bin




I am using Mozilla 1.3 alpha, I have also seen similar problems of memory rising
with 1.2.1 but it is particularly bad with 1.3a ( almost unusable).

Comment 1

[Karthik Krishnamoorthy]

Additional System information

Machine type Ultra 10 
OS - Solaris 9 
512 MB of ram available and 1 gig of swap space 

Have gnome 2.0 installed on the system. 

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Reporter:
Can you close Mozilla and delete the file "xul.mfasl" in your Mozilla User
profile and try it again ?

Comment 3

[Karthik Krishnamoorthy]

Matti
That seemed to work. I was able to recreate the problem and after I deleted the
xul.mfasl the problem seemed to go away. 
The XUL file is also much smaller than compared to the previous one. 

Thanks
Karthik

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

it will grow again if you use different UI in Mozilla.
This file is a "cache" for Mozilla's UI language "XUL".

we have a few small bugs with this caching and a part of that is already fixed.
marking as dupe of bug 169777, please reopen if you disagree :-)


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 169777 ***

Comment 5

[Daniel Wang]

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