Bit of a problem with FireFox in Fedora 16

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Mon Oct 8 11:34:49 UTC 2012


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On 10/07/2012 11:30 PM, Roger wrote:
> Using my Fedora 16 on a home installation as a development system.
> 
> I have 2 sites on VPS remote server, one for dev and one as a live site
> both using Drupal 7 fully updated. Developing on the dev site, using Drupal
> 7 firefox locks up for about 3 minutes with one of my CPU's running at 98%
> with 2 gig memory running at 88%. Other CPU at 12-14%. Once the CPU and
> memory drop off it's back to normal. I do note that it seems to be only one
> function in Drupal where this happens, changing a Content Type settings. 
> Does not happen with making similar changes in the the live site which is
> on the same server but different directory.
> 
> Is it likely that SELinux may be causing this, if so how do I check and
> what should I look at to try to fix please. What other things would cause a
> lock up of firefox for  such a long time. Other apps work but slowly
> because of memory and CPU usage, mouse and keyboard works.
> 
> None of this happens with the same drupal install on my home dev system. I
> have run out of ideas on where to look to find causes so if anyone can
> advise that'd be great. Thanks in advance Roger
> 
Are you seeing AVC messages in  /var/log/audit/audit.log?  If you put the
machine into permissive mode and restart firefox, does the problem go away?

# setenforce 0


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