On a ThinkPad x220 with Intel SandyBridge Mobile graphics, 8G RAM and a rotating HDD, starting epiphany on X brings my system to its knees. The gnome-shell session freezes, the HDD light stays on, and finally the OOM killer kills X. Looking at the console output, I see that epiphany crashed our from an X error.
For what it's worth, I have a bunch of tabs always open as a TODO list of some sort, but that was never a big problem before this.
This is still problematic with webkitgtk4-2.14.1. On the same ThinkPad x220 (Intel Sandybridge, 8G RAM, rotating HDD), starting epiphany continues to freeze the system.
I have not checked with WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1, yet (because it takes so long to get the system back under control).
There is also https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164052 that we are discussing upstream. It is very reliably reproducible on Fedora 24, and I am afraid that it will be the same on F23 too.
I am afraid of introducing such a big regression so far down the road in Fedora 23. We might still manage to fix F24, but we don't have too much time for F23.
I forgot to mention that just before my session crashed, my journal received a lot of entries prefixed with "Memory pressure relief:". So, yes, this is https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164052
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works for me
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On a ThinkPad x220 with Intel SandyBridge Mobile graphics, 8G RAM and a rotating HDD, starting epiphany on X brings my system to its knees. The gnome-shell session freezes, the HDD light stays on, and finally the OOM killer kills X. Looking at the console output, I see that epiphany crashed our from an X error.
For what it's worth, I have a bunch of tabs always open as a TODO list of some sort, but that was never a big problem before this.
It works fine with WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1.
This update has reached 15 days in testing and can be pushed to stable now if the maintainer wishes
This update has been unpushed.
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This is still problematic with webkitgtk4-2.14.1. On the same ThinkPad x220 (Intel Sandybridge, 8G RAM, rotating HDD), starting epiphany continues to freeze the system.
I have not checked with WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1, yet (because it takes so long to get the system back under control).
There is also https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164052 that we are discussing upstream. It is very reliably reproducible on Fedora 24, and I am afraid that it will be the same on F23 too.
I am afraid of introducing such a big regression so far down the road in Fedora 23. We might still manage to fix F24, but we don't have too much time for F23.
I forgot to mention that just before my session crashed, my journal received a lot of entries prefixed with "Memory pressure relief:". So, yes, this is https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164052
This update has been unpushed.