Comment 32 for bug 107093
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| Martin Bartlett (martin-bartlett) wrote | #32 |
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Having had the same problem in - ahem - Mandriva 2007.1, FF 2.0.0.3 - with Firefox running, the system freezes quicker and quicker - I examined this and other reports and, just for kicks, cleared the FF cache (before FF had done its nasty), and set it to clear after every close of FF.
I haven't had a freeze since!
I THINK (though I have no documentary evidence to support this - only circumstantial) that the cache got corrupted when my over zealous son got impatient and killed FF while it was closing - THEN FF screwed up its own cache more and more as it went through the reboot, restart FF, freeze cycle. At the time of each freeze there was TONS of IO activity going on which turned out to be on the /home partition - evidence for THAT being that the /home partition was the one with lots of orphan inodes cleared at the restart.
Whatever it was, the cache clear seems to have done the trick - hope someone more tenacious can now find out why.