97147 - Excessive number of file accesses on startup

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: General, defect)

Description

[Morten Welinder]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:0.9.3+) Gecko/20010817
BuildID:    2001081710

Certain files are accessed (open/stat/access/...) a zillion
times on startup.  Notably

   74  /var/tmp/mozilla/chrome/classic.jar
   47  /var/tmp/mozilla/chrome/comm.jar
   36  /var/tmp/mozilla/chrome/en-US.jar
   34  /var/tmp/mozilla/chrome/toolkit.jar


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start mozilla under strace
2. Exit



Actual Results:  * Way too many file accesses.
* Use of "access" -- should be stats, at the very least.
  (access uses wrong set of permissions.)


Expected Results:  * One file, one open.  :-)
* Not an "access" in sight.


Attachment coming up, assuming I can figure that out.

Comment 1

[Morten Welinder]

Attachment: strace accounting

Comment 2

[Daniel Mario Vega (Restore MNG Support --> #18574)]

Perhaps a dup of bug 27510 or bug 79521 or bug 72551 ?

Comment 3

[Morten Welinder]

Not dupe of those:

Bug 27510: This is about reading too much on startup.
Bug 79521: This is about reading the wrong jar file.
Bug 72551: This is slightly related to the strace-accounting's stats on
           small file i/o, but unrelated to the number of file accesses.

Comment 4

[R.K.Aa.]

Related: bug 29063

Comment 5

[Keyser Sose]

Marking NEW. Not sure but lets toss this one over to XPAPPS

Comment 6

[Paul Chen]

-> cathleen

Comment 7

[Arun Prasannan (polar)]

This bug is being marked EXPIRED as it has seen no activity in a very long time.

If you think that the issue reported might still be relevant, please test with a recent release of SeaMonkey and if the problem persists feel free to re-open the report. Thank you.

http://www.seamonkey-project.org/

Comment 8

[Mark Banner (:standard8) (afk until 21st July)]

Bulk reopening incorrectly expired bugs - no activity does not constitute no bug - these need proper checking.