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title="NEW - [GTK] Since the memory pressure relief has been activated, my disk has a high usage and the desktop stalls"
href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164052#c16">Comment # 16</a>
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title="NEW - [GTK] Since the memory pressure relief has been activated, my disk has a high usage and the desktop stalls"
href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164052">bug 164052</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:rishi.is@lostca.se" title="Debarshi Ray <rishi.is@lostca.se>"> <span class="fn">Debarshi Ray</span></a>
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<pre>(In reply to <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=164052#c14">comment #14</a>)
<span class="quote">> (In reply to <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=164052#c8">comment #8</a>)
> > (In reply to <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=164052#c6">comment #6</a>)
> > > The 'Resources' tab in gnome-system-monitor showed memory use jump to 7G+
> > > and there was a similar rise in CPU activity. Possibly due to kswapd. Next
> > > time (the machine freezes so I can interact while this is going on) I will
> > > keep the 'Processes' tab open and see what happens there.
> > >
> >
> > Please, try the following:
> >
> > 1. Download this script <a href="https://people.igalia.com/clopez/printwebkitmemory.sh">https://people.igalia.com/clopez/printwebkitmemory.sh</a>
> > 2. Execute it and redirect the output to a file:
>
> Damn! I can't get it to swap on this Fedora 24 laptop with
> webkitgtk4-2.14.1-1.fc24.x86_64. It used to happen very predictably with the
> same version, and both my laptops used to be very similar memory-wise - 8G
> RAM, no swap partition.
>
> Maybe I just need to go back to using Ephy by default to trigger it again.
> (I have temporarily switched to Firefox.)</span >
I managed to trigger this a few times by - (a) opening a bunch of links from FB, (b) creating Fedora updates from admin.fedoraproject.org/updates. Unfortunately when kswapd kicks in, the printwebkitmemory.sh script crashes. 'fork' fails with 'unable to allocate memory', which crashes the bash child process.
Maybe I should actually test some of the webkit patches that were posted. Is there any scratch build for Fedora 24 or 25 that I could try?</pre>
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