[Opera-Linux] Here's something else unusual

[Daniel Eckl]

2009/7/1 Kenneth Crudup <kenny at panix.com>:
>
> I save images (RightClick->Save Image) in a directory that symlinks back
> to my hard drive (I run most things out of an SSD and also have a larger
> hard drive in my laptop for saved files).
>
> So, during my daily "lsof" on Opera, I've been noticing this:
>
> $ sudo lsof -p 15665 | fgrep /hd-disk/opera-images
> opera   15665 kenny   21r   DIR                8,3   835584        13 /hd-disk/opera-images
> opera   15665 kenny   24r   DIR                8,3   835584        13 /hd-disk/opera-images
> opera   15665 kenny   79r   DIR                8,3   835584        13 /hd-disk/opera-images
> opera   15665 kenny   80r   DIR                8,3   835584        13 /hd-disk/opera-images
> opera   15665 kenny   81r   DIR                8,3   835584        13 /hd-disk/opera-images
> opera   15665 kenny   82r   DIR                8,3   835584        13 /hd-disk/opera-images
> <snip>
> opera   15665 kenny  168r   DIR                8,3   835584        13 /hd-disk/opera-images
> opera   15665 kenny  169r   DIR                8,3   835584        13 /hd-disk/opera-images
> opera   15665 kenny  170r   DIR                8,3   835584        13 /hd-disk/opera-images
> opera   15665 kenny  171r   DIR                8,3   835584        13 /hd-disk/opera-images
> opera   15665 kenny  172r   DIR                8,3   835584        13 /hd-disk/opera-images
> opera   15665 kenny  173r   DIR                8,3   835584        13 /hd-disk/opera-images
> opera   15665 kenny  174r   DIR                8,3   835584        13 /hd-disk/opera-images
> opera   15665 kenny  175r   DIR                8,3   835584        13 /hd-disk/opera-images
> opera   15665 kenny  176r   DIR                8,3   835584        13 /hd-disk/opera-images
> $
>
> (Where "/hd-disk/opera-images" is the actual destination the symlink that
> my "Save to" directory in the Advanced Preferences points to).
>
> There were a lot of 'em,  so I counted them:
>
> $ sudo lsof -p 15665 | fgrep /hd-disk/opera-images | wc -l
> 63
> $
>
> Yeah, 63 open instances of a single directory can't be right. Let me
> try using the actual directory in the Opera prefs and restart and see
> if that changes anything.
>
>        -Kenny
>
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Hi Kenny!

One thing I notice in general: You have an incredible amount of very
unusual configurations and settings. And  every second mail does
uncover the next very non-default trick you use. At least it feels
that way.

Please don't take that as a blame saying "Well if you screw up your
system, it's all your fault". I don't want to say anything in that
direction. I am fully confident, that these configurations all
_should_ be no problem, they are very experienced and in theory they
all should work fine. But one of these seem to trigger your unusual
opera experience, that's my humble opinion.

I fear it's incredibly hard to rule out, which configuration is
causing the misbehavior. I bet you have a good dozen of other cool
tricks you got used to and these might be so normal for you, that you
not even think of them as a potential cause. Do you perhaps see any
possibility to rule out ALL of them at once? I think of very radical
things like taking a spare harddisk, install Ubuntu 9.04 (no matter if
32 or 64-bit) with ALL options default. Just a simple "next - next -
next - ok" setup, then use opera with a blank configuration and just
import the session with al the pages you have open normally.

My goal is to rule out if it's opera itself when it renders all your
tabs (in that case, the problem should re-appear on that setup too),
or some of the unusual system tweaks you use, which triggers an opera
bug (in that case the bug would be gone on the test system).

Best,
Daniel