Closed Bug 1315098 Opened 8 years ago Closed 6 years ago

Firefox causing constant fan spin with big pauses, and high GC/CC

Categories

(Core :: XPCOM, defect, P3)

Product:
Core
Component:
XPCOM
Version:
52 Branch
Platform:
x86_64
Linux
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INCOMPLETE
Project Flags:
Performance Impact ?

People

(Reporter: bullionareboy, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

(Keywords: perf, Whiteboard: [MemShrink:P3])

Attachments

(1 file)

memory-report-ahang.json.gz
176.35 KB, application/x-gzip
Details 
I've got this super annoying Fan spinning issue.
The fan starts spinning noisily and slow and repeats the process.
From what i could read its been going on for a long time but I'm not sure if its the same
Its caused due to mouse Polling or so. 
Funny thing is i don't seem to have noticed it in the stable Ubuntu distro shipped Firefox(49.0.2) 

Profile:
https://cleopatra.io/#report=cce56f1967780ce265f4f158bc473637522b7413&selection=0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14 

Specs:
64bit, 4GB ram, Intel i3, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 
Nightly 52.0a1 (2016-11-02) (64-bit) fresh new profile
Mouse - Logitech M100r
I had not closed the browser for around a days time so the effect is more pronounced
Easily triggered while scrolling YouTube homepage 

Here's the about:memory files: 
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/woszo5otqoav0/Memory
I've got the log's(GC & CC) saved - can upload if required. 

about:performance says this for now: 
Process ID 
15510 
Parent 

Resident Set Size 
1.0 GB 
827 MB

Unique Set Size 
946 MB
801 MB

about:performance for the tabs:
Full name: https://www.youtube.com/ (as window 4294985552).
Impact on framerate: 8/10.
CPU usage: 14%.
System usage: 1%.
Blocking process calls: 0%.
Measure start: 20 seconds ago.
Processes: 15510 (child)

Full name: https://twitter.com/ (as window 4294985585).
Impact on framerate: 9/10.
CPU usage: 2%.
System usage: 1%.
Blocking process calls: 0%.
Measure start: 30 seconds ago.
Processes: 15510 (child)

Full name: https://www.facebook.com/user.name (as window 4294985621).
Impact on framerate: 9/10.
CPU usage: 20%.
System usage: 2%.
Blocking process calls: 0%.
Measure start: 25 seconds ago.
Processes: 15510 (child)
Component: Untriaged → Memory Allocator
Product: Firefox → Core
This sounds a lot like bug 508427.
Component: Memory Allocator → XPCOM
(In reply to Mike Hommey [:glandium] from comment #1)
> This sounds a lot like bug 508427.

Yes, while trying to find a solution i was ending up with similar Polling issues related bug  
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1019796  

Didn't know which is the correct issue. 
Its still a mystery why the fan has to constantly turn on and off.
I've got a dual gpu fwiw: Intel + Nvidia
But the problem also occurs with Nvidia completely disabled
I think I've got better data to help investigate. It was frustrating even to collect data with the browser locking up frequently during data collection 
As this issue continues to happen its leading to more & more e10s spinners
Locking up the brower and Ubuntu OS - the whole screen goes to that fade to black mode.

about:performance
Process ID 	Resident Set Size 	Unique Set Size
14412		2.6 GB			2.6 GB
Parent		511 MB			460 MB

PROFILES:
https://cleopatra.io/#report=22a74951e78edaee152761a836eeaaf8cc8aa6f4

Problem Specific Selection:
https://cleopatra.io/#report=22a74951e78edaee152761a836eeaaf8cc8aa6f4&selection=0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,29,30,31,32,33,34,3810

about:performance tabs slowing down:
Facebook may currently be slowing down Nightly.less

    Full name: https://www.facebook.com/ (as window 2147494248).
    Impact on framerate: 9/10.
    CPU usage: 7%.
    System usage: 1%.
    Blocking process calls: 0%.
    Measure start: 39 seconds ago.
    Processes: 14412 (child)

about:performance may currently be slowing down Nightly.less

    Full name: [System Principal], about:performance (as window 506).
    Impact on framerate: 7/10.
    CPU usage: 2%.
    System usage: 1%.
    Blocking process calls: 0%.
    Measure start: 39 seconds ago.
    Processes: 14332 (parent)

YouTube may currently be slowing down Nightly.less
    Full name: https://www.youtube.com/html5 (as window 2147494263).
    Impact on framerate: 6/10.
    CPU usage: 1%.
    System usage: 1%.
    Blocking process calls: 0%.
    Measure start: 39 seconds ago.
    Processes: 14412 (child)

about:memory 
http://www.mediafire.com/file/2xhd3lqvn33l134/memory-report3.json.gz
Seems like this gets easily triggered after a about a day of browsing and letting the system hibernate/standby(close lid of laptop) while leaving Firefox running.  
Once I login(open lid) into my Ubuntu system, Firefox then starts acting up.
Whiteboard: [qf]
Whiteboard: [qf] → [qf:investigate]
So, as you say, we're spending a lot of time trying to reclaim memory with garbage / cycle collection.

Hey mccr8... is the memory report at http://www.mediafire.com/file/2xhd3lqvn33l134/memory-report3.json.gz illuminating at all?
Flags: needinfo?(continuation)
There's certainly something weird going on. There's only one content process, and it has a memory report like this:
2,155.55 MB (100.0%) -- explicit
├──2,095.21 MB (97.20%) ── heap-unclassified
├─────57.53 MB (02.67%) -- heap-overhead
│     ├──34.03 MB (01.58%) ── bookkeeping
│     ├──22.69 MB (01.05%) ── bin-unused
│     └───0.80 MB (00.04%) ── page-cache
└──────2.82 MB (00.13%) ++ (5 tiny)

That's it! The tiny part shows a few ghost windows and some preferences stuff, but little else. I think the memory reporters are fairly async, so maybe the CPU is so bogged down they mostly did not complete. I really doubt there's zero JS.

The parent process is less odd looking but it also has a good amount of heap-unclassified:
  424.49 MB (60.59%) ── heap-unclassified
Flags: needinfo?(continuation)
Whiteboard: [qf:investigate] → [qf:investigate][MemShrink]
This doesn't seem to be memshrink issue (other than a weird memory report).
Whiteboard: [qf:investigate][MemShrink] → [qf:investigate]
Im adding another profile - https://perfht.ml/2vungKQ
Apart from the fan spin i see the dreaded spinner yet again.  

Usage includes: freecodecamp, reddit, youtube, twitter
Despite this being an unsymbolicated profile (so it's missing details), the pseudostack entries show long CC pauses here again.

Hey bull500, sorry if we've already gone over this, but what add-ons do you have enabled?
Flags: needinfo?(bullionareboy)
(In reply to Mike Conley (:mconley) - Digging out of needinfo / review backlog. from comment #9)
> Despite this being an unsymbolicated profile (so it's missing details), the
> pseudostack entries show long CC pauses here again.


Is there anything additional you want me to log/submit? I can do so if its not super hard.


> Hey bull500, sorry if we've already gone over this, but what add-ons do you
> have enabled?

ATM i do have a few enabled; previous profiles were without addons tho  
Gecko Profile, Pulse(TestPilot), TestPilot, Video DownloadHelper, VivaldiFox
Flags: needinfo?(bullionareboy)
Another one with all extensions disabled - https://perfht.ml/2vuu4rJ
(In reply to bull500 from comment #11)
> Another one with all extensions disabled - https://perfht.ml/2vuu4rJ

This one has symbols, so that's good. These big pauses (wow, 5s!!) are GC and CC.

Can you please post your about:support?
Flags: needinfo?(bullionareboy)
Application Basics
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Build ID: 20170717100212
Update Channel: nightly
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OS: Linux 4.4.0-43-generic
Multiprocess Windows: 1/1 (Enabled by default)
Stylo: false (disabled by default)
Google Key: Found
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Report ID: bp-c571cd11-6d97-4dd5-b289-2a42b0170714
Submitted: 3 days ago

Report ID: bp-b8db2fc6-334f-4cd6-89e7-f6ec10170714
Submitted: 3 days ago

Report ID: bp-46a1ba59-455f-4231-8c8f-2055d0170714
Submitted: 3 days ago

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Rejected System Calls
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Flags: needinfo?(bullionareboy)
Hm. Nothing particularly suspicious there.

Next time this occurs, can you go to about:memory, and click "Minimize memory usage" a few times to see if the behaviour changes?
Flags: needinfo?(bullionareboy)
(In reply to Mike Conley (:mconley) - Digging out of needinfo / review backlog. from comment #14)
> Hm. Nothing particularly suspicious there.
> 
> Next time this occurs, can you go to about:memory, and click "Minimize
> memory usage" a few times to see if the behaviour changes?


a real bad hang 
none of links even started loading at this stage 
https://perfht.ml/2vuOQHR  

After the hang
https://perfht.ml/2vuMJ6A

Minimize the memory didnt have any effect  
It slowly led to a hang. The UI being responsive but none of the websites were loading content after typing the URL's in fresh new tabs

Memory reports here : http://www.mediafire.com/?82v9nzhpcgf5c
MM-memory minimize 
A-after B-before
Flags: needinfo?(bullionareboy)
So it sounds like a leak to me then. Looking at the attached memory report, for example, I see ~500MB of memory associated with detached windows.
(In reply to Eric Rahm [:erahm] (please no mozreview requests) from comment #7)
> This doesn't seem to be memshrink issue (other than a weird memory report).

This is starting to feel like a pretty serious leak that bull500 can hit reliably. Are we sure this isn't MemShrink-y?
Flags: needinfo?(erahm)
This is real easy to reproduce.  
Having freecodecamp.org, twitter, outlook, reddit and youtube opened and closed or left in background can easily trigger. 
Freecodecamp does seem like a heavy site similar to CodeAcademy where the performance of Firefox takes a dip; so having one of these coding sites open does the job of reproducing the error without much effort.  
Otherwise it takes a tad bit longer to reach this state of problem  

My ubuntu system monitor states
Webcontent at 1.8GB-2GB running for about - 06:58:16
Firefox at 490MB-600MB running for about - 07:45:30 (not sure on the runtime accuracy)
There are ton of detached windows and 2 ghost windows (I usually blame addons for that).

> 2,064.42 MB (100.0%) -- explicit
> ├────998.54 MB (48.37%) -- window-objects
> │    ├──495.46 MB (24.00%) -- top(none)
> │    │  ├──493.05 MB (23.88%) -- detached
> │    │  │  ├──173.16 MB (08.39%) ++ (215 tiny)
> │    │  │  ├───41.54 MB (02.01%) ++ window(<anonymized-4294970049>)
> │    │  │  ├───30.22 MB (01.46%) ++ window(<anonymized-4294967794>)
> │    │  │  ├───29.96 MB (01.45%) ++ window(<anonymized-4294967799>)
> │    │  │  ├───28.75 MB (01.39%) ++ window(<anonymized-4294969327>)
> │    │  │  ├───26.42 MB (01.28%) ++ window(<anonymized-4294967299>)
> │    │  │  ├───25.15 MB (01.22%) ++ window(<anonymized-4294968184>)
> │    │  │  ├───24.95 MB (01.21%) ++ window(<anonymized-4294969638>)
> │    │  │  ├───23.30 MB (01.13%) ++ window(<anonymized-4294969597>)
> │    │  │  ├───23.07 MB (01.12%) ++ window(<anonymized-4294970214>)
> │    │  │  ├───23.03 MB (01.12%) ++ window(<anonymized-4294969981>)
> │    │  │  ├───22.78 MB (01.10%) ++ window(<anonymized-4294969930>)
> │    │  │  └───20.72 MB (01.00%) ++ window(<anonymized-4294969732>)
> │    │  └────2.41 MB (00.12%) -- ghost
> │    │       ├──1.39 MB (00.07%) ++ window(<anonymized-4294971142>)
> │    │       └──1.02 MB (00.05%) ++ window(<anonymized-4294971148>)

Your vsize is rather large, but that's probably because wasm is involved.

> 35,011.25 MB ── vsize
> 6,128.06 MB ── wasm-guard-pages

So the question is were addons disabled when you took this memory report?
Flags: needinfo?(erahm)
Flags: needinfo?(bullionareboy)
I seem to have managed to get a ghost window on freecodecamp.org (although I'm not seeing wasm). Andrew, is there any chance you could try to repro and do some GC/CC log digging?
Flags: needinfo?(continuation)
Whiteboard: [qf:investigate] → [qf:investigate][MemShrink]
Yup my addons were disabled. :erahm  

:mconley - ive sent a DM on twitter with a profile link, video and iirc(non anon) memory report. 
It might contain personal details so i haven't shared here  


I took another profile yesterday - https://perfht.ml/2vHRBGH - Gecko profiler seemed to indicate it had more data on this instance.  

I have another doubt if its because of standby/sleep. I leave Firefox running if i shut the lid or the system goes into standby when im away from ubuntu.
Flags: needinfo?(bullionareboy)
(In reply to Eric Rahm [:erahm] (please no mozreview requests) from comment #20)
> I seem to have managed to get a ghost window on freecodecamp.org (although
> I'm not seeing wasm). Andrew, is there any chance you could try to repro and
> do some GC/CC log digging?

What did you do on the site to trigger the ghost window? Did you log in, etc.? I browsed around a little bit on the site and didn't get one.
Flags: needinfo?(continuation) → needinfo?(erahm)
I believe I attempted to log in with github, realized that was going to be a pain w/ 2FA, cancelled, created a throw-away account and went through a few of the tutorials (up to learning about the <p> tag).
Flags: needinfo?(erahm)
Flags: needinfo?(continuation)
Another bit of info 

While i use freecodecamp, i also use codepen for running/testing code. 
Not long in the process my browser completely locks up 
The CPU usage looked normal but my RAM was maxed out ~96-98% usage of 4GB and ~53% usage of Swap partition (8GB total)  

Luckily i was able to crash the session properly via Terminal and here's a crash report if it helps
https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/8ee375f7-739a-43ed-a3b6-302560170801
I'll try to repro again and gather cc logs.
Flags: needinfo?(erahm)
I'm not going to have to time to look at this soon. Sorry for the delay.
Flags: needinfo?(continuation)
Whiteboard: [qf:investigate][MemShrink] → [qf:investigate][MemShrink:P3]
(In reply to (Out 9/7 - 9/8) Eric Rahm [:erahm] (please no mozreview requests) from comment #25)
> I'll try to repro again and gather cc logs.

I can't seem to repro with the latest nightly.
Flags: needinfo?(erahm)
Keywords: perf
Priority: -- → P3
Summary: Firefox causing constant fan spin → Firefox causing constant fan spin with big pauses, and high GC/CC
There is also Bug 1373023 - [meta] Laggy text input on Twitter direct messages (we flush layout too often, and reflow is slow)
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
Performance Impact: --- → ?
Whiteboard: [qf:investigate][MemShrink:P3] → [MemShrink:P3]
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