Bug#563106: iceweasel locks up system after saving multiple files to disk drive

[Mike Hommey]

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 04:33:48PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote:
> Package: iceweasel
> Version: 3.5.6-1
> Severity: important
> 
> When I save a page with multiple elements on it, or save multiple
> pages with a few elements on it, or just save the elements (graphics
> mainly, I guess), iceweasel starts to slow my system down. If I
> catch it quickly enough, I can stop the slowdown by shutting down
> iceweasel then restarting it. If not, the systems becomes
> increasingly unresponsive until it eventually hangs or spontaneously
> reboots.
> 
> This is a real pain right now because I'm submitting online job
> applications and I save a copy of each job ad locally. The pages
> aren't the most visual things I've ever seen, but even saving one
> appears to be sufficient to start the slowdown.
> 
> I've noticed the same thing on other sites where I don't save the
> page - just individual elements from the page.
> 
> Simply browsing without saving doesn't trigger the problem. It's the
> saving locally that seems to be the culprit. And it appears to
> become noticeable somewhere at around 10 - 20 files saved.

Could you try to take a look at the system cpu and memory usage while
doing so, and how it evolves ? How much memory do you have on your
computer ? What kind of pages are you trying to save ? Are they massive
?

Thanks

Mike