Firefox calling kse_release rapidly

[Simon Barner]

Anish Mistry wrote:
> 	I've got a funny problem with firefox.  It runs fine browsing and 
> such, but when I open the Preferences dialog the application takes a 
> few seconds to load the window and clicking on the different tabs is 
> slow.  If I click the downloads tab it takes 10-15 seconds to switch 
> to it and if I then click to edit/view the file associations the new 
> window takes ~3 minutes to load and operates _very_ slowly.  All the 
> while the CPU is pegged at 100%.

I think I see similiar behaviour with firefox-1.5,1 on
FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #2: Thu Jan  5 13:34:50 CET 2006

I thought about updating to firefox-1.5_5,1, but since it seems to have the
same problem, I'll postpone that.

The problem seems to be provoked when any firefox dialogue is opened, i.e.
"save as", ...

> Running truss on the process I repeatedly and rapidly get the 
> following:
> kse_release(0x8064f44)                           = 0 (0x0)

Confirmed.

> 
> I've got a ktrace log while firefox seems to be spinning it's wheels 
> with the above:
> http://am-productions.biz/docs/firefox-ktrace.log.gz
> http://am-productions.biz/docs/make.conf
> http://am-productions.biz/docs/dmesg.boot
> 
> I'm running 6.0-RELEASE with firefox-1.5_5,1 compiled from the ports.  

-- 
Best regards / Viele Grüße,                             barner at FreeBSD.org
 Simon Barner                                                barner at gmx.de
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