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From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@ulyssis.org>
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Subject: Re: flash9 checklist
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On Wednesday 05 November 2008 17:25:56 Steve Polyack wrote:
> Tijl Coosemans wrote:
>> On Wednesday 05 November 2008 15:35:21 Steve Polyack wrote:
>>> So I've done some more testing of this with various linux_base-*
>>> installs.  Youtube and most things (google maps) work with sound just
>>> fine for a few seconds, but after trying to interact or letting them go
>>> for a few minute they begin to rapidly eat up main memory.
>>> npviewer.bin's usage will top out somewhere around 300-450MB before it
>>> core dumps: pid 77684 (npviewer.bin), uid 1042: exited on signal 11
>>> (core dumped).  This is on FreeBSD 7-STABLE i386 (as of Tue Oct 28) with
>>> native Firefox 3.0.3 still.
>> 
>> Do you have this with linux-firefox?
> 
> Yes, I have the same behavior when using linux-firefox 2.0.17 from ports.

Ok, so it's not a problem with npviewer.bin then.

It's possible that when it's eating memory it's already coredumping.
I've noticed that coredumps are generally a LOT bigger with 2.6.16
emulation compared to 2.4.2.