59806 - PSM stops responding, spikes CPU

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 34834

(Core :: Security, defect, P3)

Description

[Peter Janes]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i686; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001108
BuildID:    2000110808

After several transactions on www.chapters.ca (adding entries to a wish list),
PSM stopped responding and headed for 100% CPU usage.  Mozilla reported
'connection refused'.  Killing the PSM processes, then trying to navigate again
in Mozilla, crashed the browser (Talkback ID TB20807011E).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add several entries to your wish list at http://www.chapters.ca.


Actual Results:  After adding several entries (once after 3, once after 7 or 8),
PSM spiked.

(Oops, Bugzilla helper doesn't have a PSM field.  Assigning to Security: General
in browser, and will reassign to PSM daemon.)

The Talkback trace probably isn't of much use here.  If there's any way I can
provide information on the PSM state, please let me know and I will.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

This resembles bug 34834, now marked fixed and verified as such, with PSM 1.4.
For the curiosity of it: how many psm threads were there?

Comment 2

[Warner Young]

On my Win98 machine, the MS process viewer reports 128 threads for PSM.  Plus
PSM kept hanging around even after I exited Mozilla.  This is with PSM 1.3,
since that's the only one I have access to (through the Install PSM menu).

Comment 3

[Peter Janes]

Yes, this does look a lot like 34834.  It seems PSM 1.4 isn't available for
download yet, though. 8^(

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 34834 ***

Comment 4

[John Unruh]

After you install PSM 1.3 from iPlanet, you can use the files below to replace 
the PSM 1.3 files. This is not the final version of PSM 1.4.

http://www.concentric.net/~unruh/linux-psm1.4.zip
http://www.concentric.net/~unruh/win-psm1.4.zip