Bug 445573
| Summary: | firefox disk write IO storms | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Warren Togami <wtogami> |
| Component: | firefox | Assignee: | Gecko Maintainer <gecko-bugs-nobody> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | faisy, mat.booth, mcepl, redhat-bugzilla, redhat-bugzilla, tao |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2008-05-16 15:16:38 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Warren Togami
2008-05-07 17:49:09 UTC
Cannot reproduce here, but I have heavily working Firefox with insane amount of tabs, so maybe it is just hidden in other activity. *** Bug 445568 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** I'm also seeing this problem with: xulrunner-1.9-0.60.beta5.fc9.x86_64 firefox-3.0-0.60.beta5.fc9.x86_64 Firefox starts thrashing the disk almost every time a few minutes into the session no matter what website. Vmstat tells me the CPU is 50%-90% waiting on IO fairly consistently for more than 5 minutes at a time. I have the same problem here. iotop's (yum install iotop) most actives (examples while Firefox is running): PID USER DISK READ DISK WRITE SWAPIN IO> COMMAND 477 root 0 B/s 22.64 K/s 0.00 % 99.99 % [kjournald] 3293 ferrogoo 116.37 K/s 72.73 K/s 0.00 % 99.99 % firefox -UILocale de ... PID USER DISK READ DISK WRITE SWAPIN IO> COMMAND 214 root 0 B/s 0 B/s 0.00 % 99.99 % [pdflush] 477 root 0 B/s 0 B/s 0.00 % 99.99 % [kjournald] ... PID USER DISK READ DISK WRITE SWAPIN IO> COMMAND 3222 ferrogoo 290.78 K/s 207.18 K/s 0.00 % 79.13 % firefox -UILocale de 477 root 0 B/s 0 B/s 0.00 % 61.14 % [kjournald] 214 root 0 B/s 0 B/s 0.00 % 19.37 % [pdflush] It takes about three minutes to complete. Part of the time Firefox does not respond to any user interaction. Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping Per http://jasondclinton.livejournal.com/66300.html , looks like this may have something to do with upstream bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421482 (and peripherally http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9546 ) I see this, too. The IO bursts seem to be periodic, and strace'ing firefox during one of those peroids shows it happily working it's way through urlclassifier*.sqlite. Streaming reads from the same filesystem (movie playback) completely stalls during those reads. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 439908 *** *** Bug 452718 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** |