Bug 165998 – [GTK] Slowness and crashes when loading some web pages on Intel NUC

• Status: NEW
• Component: WebKitGTK

[Aram J. Agajanian]

I have been using WebkitGtk+ as part of the Epiphany web browser in Fedora Linux.

My work computer has a Radeon video card and it works well.

I have another computer which is an Intel NUC (NUC6I5SYK).  On that computer, there is slowness and crashes when loading some web pages.

The build of WebkitGtk+ is webkitgtk4-2.14.2-1.fc25.x86_64.

[Aram J. Agajanian]

Created attachment 297411 [details]
Output of glxinfo command on Intel NUC6I5SYK.

[Aram J. Agajanian]

The issues of slowness and crashing persist when running Epiphany with the following command:

WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 epiphany

[Aram J. Agajanian]

Created attachment 297412 [details]
Console output when running epiphany from the command line

It took a while but I got it to crash.  Not sure if the crash is caused by me continuously making mouse clicks while the program appears to be frozen.  Some web pages (lwn.net) don't seem to have any slowness issues.  Other pages (Google Search, Amazon.com) seem to have these issues regularly.

[Michael Catanzaro]

Oooh, lots of badness in that log.

I wonder what the 256 exit status from WebKitPluginProcess means.

Could you get a backtrace for the first critical warning? You'll need to run with G_DEBUG=fatal-criticals in the environment to make it crash on the first critical. See [1] for help on getting traces and keep in mind the criticals may be in a secondary process rather than the main Epiphany process.

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/StackTraces