From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 27 14:55:43 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA25440 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 14:55:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.36.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA25435 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 14:55:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au) Received: from bragg (bragg [129.127.36.34]) by adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8/UofA-1.5) with SMTP id JAA23976; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 09:25:36 +1030 (CST) Received: from localhost by bragg; (5.65/1.1.8.2/05Aug95-0227PM) id AA30315; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 09:25:34 +1030 Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 09:25:33 +1030 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway X-Sender: kkennawa@bragg To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: green@unixhelp.org, asmodai@wxs.nl, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: One answer, one question. In-Reply-To: <20704.917451203@verdi.nethelp.no> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 27 Jan 1999 sthaug@nethelp.no wrote: > > I haven't really messed with it too much, so right now I think it's related > > because testing makes it appear to be. i.e. if I have a kernel with VM_STACK > > Netscape will sig11 right after loading; without VM_STACK it's as stable as > > ever. I'd love to figure out why ps isn't working, though... > > Unfortunately, for some of us Netscape dying is not the problem. Netscape > *hanging* is the problem. For me, it appears to be related to DNS lookups > *and FreeBSD 3.0. > > If I run with MOZILLA_NO_ASYNC_DNS (ie. no DNS helper process), I often > get hangs. This did not happen with FreeBSD 2.2.8. It appears to happen if > name lookups take "too long". If I prime the cache on the DNS server (eg. > by looking up the name manually beforehand), *or* if I let Netscape start > a DNS helper process, I don't get these hangs. My solution to this is to run a local copy of squid to do all the actual page fetching, and to turn netscape's memory and disk cache to 0 (this might not be necessary any more, but at some point it was claimed to help for something). Running 4.5 like this has been flawless (except when I disable the proxy for whatever reason and forget, which leads to NS hanging in fairly short order :-) Kris ----- (ASP) Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) announced today that the release of its productivity suite, Office 2000, will be delayed until the first quarter of 1901. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message