Re: Firefox and Thunderbird freeze system causing a reboot

Hi Pete,

thanks for your thoughts on this. Sorry for the late reply, real life 
got in the way...

Am 07.11.2024 um 23:57 schrieb Pete Wright:
> I use both firefox and thunderbird pretty heavily on my workstation 
> (14.1) and laptop (current) and have not had any issues.  a couple 
> thoughts though to help you debug this:
> 
> 1. maybe run a memory test and check the SMART status of your disk(s). 
> i've seen behavior like this with flaky hardware in the past, and both 
> of those apps are extremely memory hungry

SMART data showed no errors of any kind. I also ran memtest for several 
passes and everything was good on that front as well.

> 2. are you getting core's after rebuilding debug builds?  if so what 
> does backtrace show?

There were no core files.

> 3. is this a low memory system?  when i was debugging a memory leak in 
> firefox a while ago i wrote a wrapper that invoked it via limits(1).

The machine had 32GB of memory installed, which should have been enough.

After the machine started complaining about changes to BIOS settings, I 
decided to go ahead an replace it. 12 years was a good run. ;-)

Best
Philipp