[TriLUG] Strange lockups on Fedora

[Peter Neilson via TriLUG]

I'm using Ubuntu 14.4, and I stopped using FF, and am sticking with Chrome  
and Opera, and now have fewer problems. Still need to shoot the whole  
thing down every few days. If I don't watch videos it'll stay up forever.

My wife's running 12.4, FF and occasionally Opera, and she'll occasionally  
tell me, "Could you please shoot down FF for me?" Sometimes it's gone to  
CPU hog, other times to no swap space. kill -9 is the solution!

My wife watches videos on my machine, under Chrome, because hers won't  
deal with them well at all.

Maybe some day I'll get around to trying to update the machines to more  
recent hdw and Ubuntu. But not today.

On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 12:19:16 -0500, Dwain Sims via TriLUG  
<trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

>>
>> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Strange lockups on Fedora
>> Yes, I’ve seen this happen with the New Firefox as well on F27.  Either
>> updates to FF or updates to F27 fixed it for me.
>> Matt P.
>
>
> I have seen this same behavior with the  "Web Content" process and the
> whole lockup business.  Can happen out of the blue, but more likely over
> the course of time.  It behaves like FF is leaking memory badly, and at
> some point it gushes out.
>
> I was a little concerned that this was a hardware issue, but you folks
> seeing it as well gives me more confidence that this is a software bug.
>
> I upgraded Mint from 18.1 to 18.3, and the incidents of this happening  
> have
> diminished greatly, but not totally.  (I think I have had one lockup  
> since
> the upgrade.)
>
> In one case I was able to kill FF when it started to go off the rails and
> that righted the ship, so to speak.
>
> Maybe what I should do is stick with Chrome and Opera and see if this  
> goes
> away completely.
>
> Dwain