bringing up *any* browser cripples system performance

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 7 Apr 2014, Ed Greshko wrote:

> On 04/07/14 05:57, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Mon, 7 Apr 2014, Ed Greshko wrote:
> >
> >> On 04/06/14 21:43, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >>> On Sun, 6 Apr 2014, Ed Greshko wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On 04/06/14 21:18, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >>>>>   just tried that, same symptoms but i also got the following selinux
> >>>>> diagnostic when i logged in with xfce:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ===== start diagnostic =====
> >>>>>
> >>>>> SELinux is preventing /usr/lib64/tumbler-1/tumblerd from write access
> >>>>> on the fifo_file .
> >>>>>
> >>>>> *****  Plugin leaks (86.2 confidence) suggests
> >>>>> *****************************
> >>>> More than likely another manifestation of
> >>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1070268
> >>>   no change under nodebug kernel -- this is the nodebug kernel,
> >>> correct?
> >>>
> >>> $ uname -r
> >>> 3.15.0-0.rc0.git5.2.fc21.x86_64+debug
> >>> $
> >>>
> >>> i just followed the instructions here:
> >>>
> >>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RawhideKernelNodebug
> >>>
> >>> rday
> >>>
> >> No change in sluggishness, no change in the AVC, or both.....
> >   have to check when i get home, not in front of system at the moment.
> >> FWIW, the AVC did finally pop up on my system after more than 12
> >> hours when before it would pop up every few minutes.
> >>
> >> Also, FWIW, you have to do a bit more than what is in
> >>
> >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RawhideKernelNodebug
> >>
> >> to get the no-debug kernel.  You do have to "reinstall" the kernel.
> >   um ... i don't know what that means.
> >
>
> It means, I booted into the "rescue" kernel and then did
>
> yum reinstall kernel-modules-extra-3.15.0-0.rc0.git9.1.fc21.x86_64 kernel-3.15.0-0.rc0.git9.1.fc21.x86_64 kernel-headers-3.15.0-0.rc0.git9.1.fc21.x86_64 kernel-devel-3.15.0-0.rc0.git9.1.fc21.x86_64

  yup, i get it now, thanks.

rday

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