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Re: Web browser tabs turn white

 

Hi Olivier

On 19.08.2015 12:12, Olivier Tilloy wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Michael Zanetti
> <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> If you're looking for a test case to reliably reproduce this, just play
>>
>> https://uappexplorer.com/app/day-d-app.ogra
>>
>> I can barely play a single level before the view blanks out. Especially
>> if there's some other apps opened too.
> 
> Not sure what I’m doing (or not doing) wrong, but I’ve just played the
> game for 15min in a row on my krillin without an issue (and there were
> other apps open in the background). I monitored CPU and memory while
> playing, and the oxide-renderer process was consistently using between
> 90 and 100% CPU and around 25% memory (with peaks at 30%).

Hmm... odd... Seems a 100% hit here... usually I can play one level, but
no second without restarting the app. Very often it also blanks out when
I finish a level and it tries to load the summary.

> 
> I’m on rc-proposed #103.
> 
> Fun game btw, thanks ogra for packaging it!

+1

> 
> 
>> On 18.08.2015 20:13, Fredrik Andersson wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Den 2015-08-18 18:38, Andrea Bernabei skrev:
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 4:54 PM, Olivier Tilloy
>>>> <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 7:46 PM, Dominik Wnęk <dominik@xxxxxxxx
>>>>     <mailto:dominik@xxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>>>     > Dnia 10 sie 2015 o godz. 13:21 Olivier Tilloy
>>>>     <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>     <mailto:olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> napisał(a):
>>>>     >
>>>>     >>> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Oliver Grawert
>>>>     <ogra@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:ogra@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>>>     >>> hi,
>>>>     >>> Am Montag, den 10.08.2015, 12:47 +0200 schrieb Dominik Wnęk:
>>>>     >>>
>>>>     >>>>
>>>>     >>>> Does this mean a single webpage with no images is capable of
>>>>     taking up all memory in the phone? Because that's the usage
>>>>     scenario I'm describing.
>>>>     >>>
>>>>     >>> well, it is definitely the same result, the renderer dies and
>>>>     doesn't
>>>>     >>> tear the UI down with it (or notify the UI to enable it to show a
>>>>     >>> message to you or some such)
>>>>     >>>
>>>>     >>> it might be a different cause from ram issues if you really
>>>>     only have
>>>>     >>> that one tab and only the browser as only app open though
>>>>     (i.e. the
>>>>     >>> lifecycle management and memory management wouldn't be
>>>>     involved in this)
>>>>     >>>
>>>>     >>> so in that light it perhaps makes sense to file a new bug
>>>>     since the
>>>>     >>> renderer might have died because of other reasons ...
>>>>     >>
>>>>     >> If the renderer was killed by the system, then that’s a memory
>>>>     >> consumption issue (already tracked by e.g.
>>>>     >> https://launchpad.net/bugs/1478853). If the renderer crashed, then
>>>>     >> that’s a different issue indeed. Can you reproduce the situation
>>>>     >> reliably on one given page, or does it happen at random?
>>>>     >>
>>>>     >
>>>>     > Hi,
>>>>     >
>>>>     > It happens on various websites I visit, like eurogamer.net
>>>>     <http://eurogamer.net> or gamingonlinux.com
>>>>     <http://gamingonlinux.com>. There are usually other apps running,
>>>>     though (meaning: the phone's been up for a while) and it looks
>>>>     like it's closing them, because they take their time to load when
>>>>     switching away from the browser.
>>>>     >
>>>>     > Anyway, I just did a little test: I rebooted the phone and
>>>>     started reading eurogamer. Within 3 minutes I got the white
>>>>     screen, while loading comments to an article on the front page. Is
>>>>     there a way I can tell what the reason for the disappearing
>>>>     renderer was?
>>>>     >
>>>>     > They have a mechanism on the comments page which loads in new
>>>>     comments at the bottom after reaching a certain point down the
>>>>     page; I've had it go white a couple of times while it was doing
>>>>     that. Also, it can occur while I'm just quickly scrolling through
>>>>     a lot of comments.
>>>>
>>>>     I just tested the eurogamer case on my BQ Aquaris E4.5, loaded a few
>>>>     articles and their associated comments (I targetted articles with 150+
>>>>     comments), washed rinsed and repeated during 10min, and I didn’t get
>>>>     the dreaded blank page.
>>>>
>>>>     My device is on rc-proposed (image #100), so many components changed
>>>>     since the latest stable release of OTA5. This image from rc-proposed
>>>>     will soon become OTA6. Let’s see if that update makes things better
>>>>     for you.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> rc-proposed 102, krillin,
>>>>
>>>> I just had the facebook web-app turn white after scrolling the feed as
>>>> fast as possible for a minute and the switching back and forth from
>>>> the browser
>>>>
>>>> the following is the output of "free -m" before and after the renderer
>>>> got killed
>>>>
>>>> phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ free -m
>>>>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
>>>> Mem:           960        856        104        179          2        242
>>>> -/+ buffers/cache:        611        349
>>>> Swap:          511        421         90
>>>>
>>>> phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ free -m
>>>>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
>>>> Mem:           960        639        320         11          2         74
>>>> -/+ buffers/cache:        562        398
>>>> Swap:          511        346        165
>>>> phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ free -m
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>> Im suffering from this aswell, guess its webapps.
>>> Usually surf on Imgur and 9gag, and all of a sudden its white and i have
>>> to restart and start over.
>>> Happens on alot of programs.
>>>
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