firefox 3 causing xorg to suck up all available CPU

[Rainer Hurling]

On my system (actual FreeBSD 8-CURRENT on i386) it seems to have 
something to do with 'gam-server' processes (from devel/gamin).

While using firefox3 on websites with many elements the cpu-time of 
gam-server processes increases enormously. Killing the highest process 
id of gam-servers speeds up firefox3 again (at least for some time). 
After a while the next gam-server process is growing ...

I am not sure if this is an observation in the right direction.

Rainer Hurling



Am 01.08.2008 09:10 (UTC+1) schrieb Doug Barton:
> I installed firefox 3 from ports in the pre-release phase (via 
> marcusmerge) and rebuilt it as needed to keep it current with the port 
> after it was committed. I have since noticed that if I start firefox 3 
> and keep it open (whether I am using it, or I have it minimized) that it 
> will eventually cause Xorg to consume all available CPU. If I kill ff3 
> it will sometimes allow X to recover, otherwise I have to completely 
> exit X and restart to get it back to normal.
> 
> I have since re-installed firefox 2 in order to confirm that things work 
> properly with it open, and all is well, so it pretty much has to be ff3 
> that is the culprit.
> 
> Anyone else seeing this?
> 
> 
> Doug
>