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Firefox for eCS (OS/2) 24.8.1 Beta2 using very high CPU.

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Jan-Erik Lärka:
Hello,

both my AMD Phenom Quad Core computer and my Sony Vaio Intel i3 reboot like that.
Everything goes black instantly and then BIOS info show up as it reboot.
It happen with JAVA applications such as JDownloader as well.

Dave Yeo:
What is your VIRTUALADDRESSLIMIT set to? If higher then 1536 you might try lowering it, if lower raising it.
Snap could also be the problem if you're using more then 1 core as parts aren't SMP safe depending on how your BIOS sets things up.

Doug Bissett:

--- Quote ---Everything goes black instantly and then BIOS info show up as it reboot.
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Actually, I saw something similar (it just went black, no reboot until I did CAD twice), once, when I downloaded a nightly version of what got released in firefox-24.8.1.en-US.os2.zip. At the time, I didn't relate it to FF, because FF had been closed for about 20 minutes. Later, I was wondering if FF had something to so with it because that was the only thing that had changed for a few days. After I rebooted, the "official" release was available before I tried it again, so I got rid of the nightly, and have been using 24.8.1 (how can you tell if it is Beta2?) since then (a few days), with no trouble like that (yet). I have had a couple of cases where other programs (Open Office) would not start, until I closed FF.

I have not seen the high usage problem. I do use SNAP with a quad core AMD Phenom processor, and I have used FLASH a couple of times. VIRTUALADDRESSLIMIT is set to 1536. I also have AdBlock and FLASHBLOCK installed. FLASHBLOCK may be the answer, because it prevents trying to run a lot of FLASH content concurrently.

I am also using the QSINIT loader, which may be setting the video properly, before eCS gets booted. I also use the QSINIT RAM disk, which makes use of the memory above what eCS can normally use, and I use "SET SHELLHANDLESINC=40", which may make some difference (20 is default).

guzzi:

--- Quote from: Jan-Erik Lärka on September 30, 2014, 08:27:13 am ---Hello,

both my AMD Phenom Quad Core computer and my Sony Vaio Intel i3 reboot like that.
Everything goes black instantly and then BIOS info show up as it reboot.
It happen with JAVA applications such as JDownloader as well.

--- End quote ---

Does it do a 'clean' reboot, like CAD does, i.e. the filesystem is clean on reboot like here?

Andy Willis:

--- Quote from: guzzi on September 30, 2014, 08:57:53 pm ---
--- Quote from: Jan-Erik Lärka on September 30, 2014, 08:27:13 am ---Hello,

both my AMD Phenom Quad Core computer and my Sony Vaio Intel i3 reboot like that.
Everything goes black instantly and then BIOS info show up as it reboot.
It happen with JAVA applications such as JDownloader as well.

--- End quote ---

Does it do a 'clean' reboot, like CAD does, i.e. the filesystem is clean on reboot like here?

--- End quote ---
I can replicate the reboot with apps such as ae.exe, newview.exe and I think tcpconfig.  These were created with Sybyl or WDSybyl (tcpconfig was with the latter but I am not sure if I had it reboot or just hang the system hard which I have had the previous two do as well).  I mostly see it with ae.exe and it started some years ago (maybe when I started using the SMP kernel).  I tried cleaning the fans, changing memory sticks, etc.  Finally I swapped the HDD into another machine and it still had the problem.  Later I put a clean eCS installation on the new machine with a new HDD and still had the problem.  The other day I put a clean installation on yet another machine and and had the problem on it as well.  I opened a ticket some months ago now.  I may be able to open ae.exe 30 times with no problem or it may reboot two launches in a row.  newview I have less problems with but then I don't launch it very often so it may be just as often.

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