Re: Updated firefox package available for sparc64
Hi Gregor,
On Fri, 2026-01-09 at 02:15 +0100, Gregor Riepl wrote:
> Thanks a lot for that!
>
> > I have successfully built and uploaded the latest version of the firefox package
> > for sparc64. The package has been verified to work fine (see screenshot in [1]).
>
> Unfortunately it segfaults very quickly on my Ultra 10:
> nect.cpp:107
That's unfortunate. However, I could confirm it works fine on a SPARC T4:
https://github.com/sparclinux/issues/issues/59#issuecomment-3705595613
>
> It was quite hard to get even a stack trace, because of excessive memory usage
> (gdb eats 4.5GB just for tracing a core dump, and the box only has 512MB).
>
> I suspected that the crash was memory-related at first, but it looks like it might
> be an issue with the JS runtime? If it is in fact memory-related, I wonder why this
> would happen. There's plenty of swap space available.
Firefox is large and takes a lot of memory. It could indeed just be that you run into
these problems due to insufficient memory but it's hard to say.
Have you ever tested the memory on this machine?
Adrian
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