ports/161737: chromium 14.0.835.x stalls (probably javascript-related

[Rene Ladan]

On 17-10-2011 13:41, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
>> Number:         161737
>> Category:       ports
>> Synopsis:       chromium 14.0.835.x stalls (probably javascript-related
> 
> On both of my RELENG_8 machines, since i updated
> from chromium 13.0.782.112 to 14.0.835.* I am experiencing
> frequent stalls on most pages -- from gmail to google docs to
> online forms for accessing various services, after a
> short time the tab containing the page become insensitive to
> keyboard and mouse input events for large amount of times
> (from 30s to minutes) before processing them.
> 
> This does not affect just input: on some other sites
> i am seeing mouse clicks being only partially
> processed, i.e. the click causes part of the content to
> be updated, but another part remain stale.
> I am seeing this in particular on JS-based pages (99.99% these days).
> 
> Unfortunately this makes chromium unusable for services where
> i cannot tolerate crashing the tab in the middle of a transaction
> (bank, shops, reservations etc.)
> 
> Haven't done a deep investigation, but it worked fine with
> 13.0.782.112 and broke when i updated to 14.0.835.X (both versions).
> The commit logs show some changes
> (tcmalloc, v8) that might be related to what i am seeing.
> 
> 
>> How-To-Repeat:
> 	open a spreadsheet in google docs, play with it for a while,
> 	until you'll see that keypresses and clicks are not
> 	processed anymore.

Can you try with chromium 16.0.912.63 ?

René
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