Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:07:16 +0100
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
To:        Rene Ladan <rene@freebsd.org>
Cc:        chromium@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ports/161737: chromium 14.0.835.x stalls (probably javascript-related
Message-ID:  <20111214230716.GA60789@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <4EE91F46.40801@freebsd.org>
References:  <20111017114140.B38037300A@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <4EE91F46.40801@freebsd.org>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:12:22PM +0100, Rene Ladan wrote:
> On 17-10-2011 13:41, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> >> Number:         161737
> >> Category:       ports
> >> Synopsis:       chromium 14.0.835.x stalls (probably javascript-related
> > 
> > On both of my RELENG_8 machines, since i updated
> > from chromium 13.0.782.112 to 14.0.835.* I am experiencing
> > frequent stalls on most pages -- from gmail to google docs to
> > online forms for accessing various services, after a
> > short time the tab containing the page become insensitive to
> > keyboard and mouse input events for large amount of times
> > (from 30s to minutes) before processing them.
> > 
> > This does not affect just input: on some other sites
> > i am seeing mouse clicks being only partially
> > processed, i.e. the click causes part of the content to
> > be updated, but another part remain stale.
> > I am seeing this in particular on JS-based pages (99.99% these days).
> > 
> > Unfortunately this makes chromium unusable for services where
> > i cannot tolerate crashing the tab in the middle of a transaction
> > (bank, shops, reservations etc.)
> > 
> > Haven't done a deep investigation, but it worked fine with
> > 13.0.782.112 and broke when i updated to 14.0.835.X (both versions).
> > The commit logs show some changes
> > (tcmalloc, v8) that might be related to what i am seeing.
> > 
> > 
> >> How-To-Repeat:
> > 	open a spreadsheet in google docs, play with it for a while,
> > 	until you'll see that keypresses and clicks are not
> > 	processed anymore.
> 
> Can you try with chromium 16.0.912.63 ?

i think this PR can be closed.
Things seem to have improved with
chromium-15.0.874.121 and i forgot about the PR.
Now building 16.0.X 

cheers
luigi



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20111214230716.GA60789>