Bug#439677: libwebkitgdk0d: gdklauncher is a CPU hog while loading floridatoday.com

[Mike Hommey]

On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 05:08:22PM +0200, Julien BLACHE <jblache at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: libwebkitgdk0d
> Version: 0~svn25144-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Since you asked on your blog, I gave a try to the gdklauncher on amd64; looks
> nice, so I tried to feed it with a heavy page that even gecko chokes on.
> 
> gdklauncher will happily become a CPU hog while rendering floridatoday.com; it
> draws a part of the page and then stalls.

Interestingly, it doesn't happen with QtLauncher, so this is probably
not a WebKit issue per se, but a gdk port issue only.

Trying to get a stacktrace during the CPU hogging seems to indicate a
loop involving libfontconfig, but the stacktrace is somehow b0rked.
It might be worth doing a test with compiler optimizations turned off.

Mike