Re: Iceweasel trouble, anyone else?
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 02:01:08AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Rob Owens wrote:
> > I recently had issues with iceweasel using 80% of my CPU. I tried
> > upgrading from 3.something to 10.something in the mozilla.debian.net
> > repos. That didn't fix it.
> >
> > I remembered that I had a kernel upgrade recently (from the backports
> > repo), and I had never rebooted. Rebooting fixed my iceweasel issue.
>
> Firefox consumed 100% cpu? And it was repeatable? You likely hit the
> recent linux kernel leap second bug[1]. FWIW it hit me too. Perhaps
> humorously I didn't think it was a kernel mutex problem because
> Firefox has so often consumed 100% for no good reason. :-)
>
Actually it was between 60% and 90% -- typically 80% or higher. I
noticed it for at least a week, until I rebooted. I tried disabling all
addons, just in case, but the problem didn't go away until a reboot.
I'll check out that leap second bug.
-Rob
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