#8314 BLOC 8.2.0 (: Browse crashes when viewing OLPC Community News

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#8314: Browse crashes when viewing OLPC Community News
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   Reporter:  gnu              |       Owner:  erikos              
       Type:  defect           |      Status:  new                 
   Priority:  blocker          |   Milestone:  8.2.0 (was Update.2)
  Component:  browse-activity  |     Version:  not specified       
 Resolution:                   |    Keywords:                      
Next_action:  never set        |    Verified:  0                   
  Blockedby:                   |    Blocking:                      
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Comment(by dsaxena):

 Rebooted the system and ran browse. This time I got something more similar
 to #8316 where browse did not crash but my whole systeme ''appeared''
 completely dead. I was running {{{top}}} in the console and that stopped
 responding and it looked like the GUI was dead too; however, I could still
 ping the machine. The system was still running, just very very slowly.
 Touching the trackpad or pressing the enter key in the console shell
 works, but there is a huge lag. Clearly, we're massively thrashing here
 when we should just OOM.

 There are two issues here:

 1) Kernel is not OOMing when it should, causing overall system degradation
 (#8316)

 2) Browse needs to better handle large pages/images so it does not chew up
 all system memory in the first place (this bug).

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8314#comment:4>
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