For the past few days i've been observing that when firefox is running
continuously for some time (sometimes for minutes, sometime for
hours), X and firefox are taking up 100% of cpu usage. My system
details are as follows:
os: debian testing (that's what i've got in my repos, dunno what version it is)
firefox: Mozilla Iceweasel 2.0.0.3
xorg: 7.1.0-16
m/c: AMD 2600 XP+
custom compiled kernel: 2.6.20-6
i tried running strace -c on firefox for a few seconds, and this is
what i've got:
% time seconds usecs/call calls errors syscall
------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
26.62 0.002113 0 4260 2100 readv
50.88 0.004039 2 2318 poll
0.23 0.000018 0 722 gettimeofday
0.00 0.000000 0 269 futex
0.00 0.000000 0 205 102 read
18.86 0.001497 8 192 77 writev
0.00 0.000000 0 140 write
0.00 0.000000 0 60 mmap2
3.41 0.000271 5 58 munmap
0.00 0.000000 0 39 ioctl
------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
100.00 0.007938 8263 2279 total
Can someone kindly point out what's happening? Or atleast give me
pointers of looking at other places where i can find out what's going
on...
Thanks a lot!
--
warm regards,
Pradnyesh Sawant
--
Be yourself, everyone else is taken. --Anon