when running latest Firefox, what is causing an 'alloc factor' message

badbetty · 12-29-2018, 07:28 AM

hello folks

As per subject, when I run latest Firefox 60.x on a [quite older] laptop (atom N270 1.6GHz 1GB ram), I get 'alloc factor 0.900000 0.900000' messages in the terminal window after starting firefox. It has just started happening. It seems to be only with Firefox.

It happens on another but different spec (single core processor) old IBM laptop too.

I am guessing it is something hurting re:resources etc, but can anyone be more specific and suggest what the actually cause is please and what it means ?

Thank you.

Didier Spaier · 12-29-2018, 10:45 AM

tl;dr: don't worry.

This is most probably a message sent by firefox to stderr, which is of no interest to an end user.

I found a code similar in this patch: https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/6d8f470b2579