Closed
Bug 266005
Opened 20 years ago
Closed 15 years ago
activating the smooth scroll option produces high temperatures in memory controller G5 2.5GHz
Categories
(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)
Tracking
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RESOLVED
WORKSFORME
People
(Reporter: h.mueller.hennef, Unassigned)
Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1 When activated the option smooth scrolling the temperature of the memory controller suddenly produces peaks, forcing the fan to power up to 100% for a few seconds, scrolling with this option checked forces the fan to work at 100% for the whole time of scrolling. Disabling this option makes the fan and the memory controller bahave as expected, with scrolling and without. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. activate option 2. scroll through a website 3. listen to the fan or check temp/fan with hardwaremonitor Actual Results: It seems, that for whatever reason the memory controller is overloaded during the scrolling. Expected Results: The SW should use only as much load on the chip as is required so that the fan has not to power up to 100%. I could mention, that due to the high main processor capacity of 2*2.5GHz some timings inside the smooth scrolling code overload the memory controller resulting in the described behaviour.
Related to Bug 202718? Does this happen with every page like Bugzilla listings?
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Comment 2•20 years ago
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It could be, 202718 is Windows related, perhaps due to the dual processor system whith hich prozessor clock (2.5GHz) and due to the high bus-clock (1.25GHz) on the Mac G5 this leads to reported behaviour ? The CPU Load goes up, too - but the Memory Controller triggers the fan to speed up ... I don't know, how the timing is done within the smooth scrolling.
This might be more info: when I enable smooth scrolling on my HP Omnibook 4150b the CPU runs at 100% more and sometimes the system locks up tight in mid-scroll -- you can acttually see where the replicated lines are when it locks up. When I disable smooth scrolling, my system is much more stable. ATI RAGE Mobility chipset. Vendor ID from XP Pro SP2 device manager: PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4C4D&SUBSYS_000A103C&REV_64\4&415A68E&0&0008 Driver: 5.1.2001.0 Date: 6-Jun-2001 (Microsoft signed)
Comment 5•19 years ago
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Most likely bug 141710, complicated with the extra cpu-power that you need to do smooth-scrolling.
Updated•17 years ago
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Assignee: bugs → nobody
Comment 6•16 years ago
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Helmut Müller: Is this still an issue with a recent release ?
Comment 7•15 years ago
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wfm
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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Comment 8•15 years ago
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Sorry Matthias, I obviously missed the mail from january and did not check bugzilla frequently. Unfortunately I can not give it a try as I have changed my system, instead of the 2.5 PPC I now use a intel based mac mini. So I´m sorry... regards, Helmut
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