Re: Firefox lockups with kernel 6.12.6

[Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca>]

On 12/27/24 11:10 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 27, 2024 at 6:42 PM Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca> wrote:
> > I am running Trixie full updated.
> > I have been having lockups quite often running Firefox under the latest
> > kernel.
> > The lockups are complete, even  REISUB doesn't work - the computer is
> > completely unresponsive.
> > I have gone back to the previous kernel and things run smoothly.

> I don't have anything useful to add. But this piqued my interest since
> Linux oversubscribes memory and many programs don't deal with ENOMEM
> well:
>
> > Swap:   Alert: No swap data was found.
>
> Does adding a 1 GB swap file and low swappiness, like `vm.swappiness =
> 2`, alleviate the problem?

  I doubt it. I haven't run a swap file in  many years and this system 
works fine
under the previous kernel. So it's not a memory problem.  A google 
search will
turn up dozens of other reports on kernel 6.12.6....most of them problems
on laptops after suspending, but mixed in are a couple of computer 
lockups like
the one I'm experiencing.
> Jeff

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Frank McCormick