Bug#709841: iceweasel: spurious out of memory + crash (segmentation fault)

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2013-05-25 23:53:32 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> I use Iceweasel with "ulimit -v 3276800", otherwise it sometimes makes
> the system freeze for several minutes due to swapping.
> 
> Iceweasel crashed with:
> 
> out of memory
> zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped)  firefox
> 
> while according to a running htop, it was taking around 1.9 GB, i.e.
> far less than the 3.2 GB limit! Well, unless it suddenly wanted more
> than 1.3 GB (for what reason???) and could not handle the failure.

According to monit, during this time the load average increased to 28.8:

Resource limit matched Service xvii.vinc17.org

        Date:        Sat, 25 May 2013 23:35:33
        Action:      alert
        Host:        xvii.vinc17.org
        Description: loadavg(1min) of 28.8 matches resource limit [loadavg(1min)>8.0]

Your faithful employee,
Monit

It is normally around 0.

> Here's the whole terminal output:
> 
> (process:18173): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion `sys_page_size == 0' failed
> error: acr: An exception occurred.
> TypeError: hiddenWindow.document.documentElement is null
> resource://gre/modules/commonjs/sdk/frame/hidden-frame.js 73
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "resource://gre/modules/NetUtil.jsm", line 140, in 
>     aCallback(pipe.inputStream, aStatusCode, aRequest);
[...]
>   File "resource://gre/modules/commonjs/sdk/frame/hidden-frame.js", line 73, in makeHostFrame
>     namespaceURI: hiddenWindow.document.documentElement.namespaceURI,
> NOTE: child process received `Goodbye', closing down

Actually this part occurs just after starting Iceweasel.

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