572796 - Firefox Home crashes during sync (iPhone 3G) (OOM)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Cloud Services Graveyard :: Firefox Home, defect)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

Attachment: low-memory crash log

I'm using b12.  This didn't happen when I first installed this version of Firefox Home, but it's happening reliably today.  I think it's happening while Firefox Home tries to sync my history.

FWIW, I've had to log into my account multiple times due to bug 572169, and I let tchung use his Firefox Sync account on my iPhone once, so there might be some cruft left over in Firefox Home from those things.

Comment 1

[Tony Chung [:tchung]]

i got this to crash also on b12, but it was not using your steps and i am on a itouch.  for me, i was browsing a website, and clicked the send url button through email.. and it crashed. 

hard to tell if its related or not since there's no stack trace.  in any case, we need to investigate.

Comment 2

[Dan Walkowski]

How many tabs/bookmarks/history are you syncing, and what device are you using?

Comment 3

[Dan Walkowski]

Oh, and Tony, do you have email configured on your iPod Touch?

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

I'm using an iPhone 3G.  I usually have fewer than 10 tabs open in my desktop Firefox, about 80 bookmarks, and >2000 history entries.

Comment 5

[Dan Walkowski]

The 3G has half the memory of the 3GS, so I might have to reduce the # of history items synced for those devices.

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

These crashes were due to a severe memory leak in mDNSResponder (Bonjour?).  By the end the OS was jettisoning Phone and SpringBoard.

Comment 7

[Jesse Ruderman]

Attachment: later crash report for other apps

mDNSResponder <df1cd275e4ad434e0575990e8e1da4cb>   16650

Comment 8

[Jesse Ruderman]

Dunno if Firefox Home triggered the leak, but reducing the number of history entries shouldn't be necessary.

Comment 9

[Ragavan S [:rags]]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Oh, and Tony, do you have email configured on your iPod Touch?

I just tested it on my Touch and the app crashes if you try to email a link and don't have any email accounts set up.

Comment 10

[Ragavan S [:rags]]

Just to be clear here - there are two crashes we are tracking in this bug. 

One is related to comment #3 and #9 - not having email setup causes app to crash when you try to email a link.

The other is related to Jesse's original report. Dan's looking into both.

Comment 11

[Tony Chung [:tchung]]

(In reply to comment #9)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > Oh, and Tony, do you have email configured on your iPod Touch?
> 
> I just tested it on my Touch and the app crashes if you try to email a link and
> don't have any email accounts set up.

yes, i do have email setup on my iTouch.

Comment 12

[Ragavan S [:rags]]

The original bug Jesse reported should be fixed in the next build. Dan fixed the issue caused by the mDNSResponder.

Comment 13

[Tony Chung [:tchung]]

Moving FFHome-related bugs to new component -> Firefox Home

Comment 14

[Ragavan S [:rags]]

Should have been fixed in 1.0.1