Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 01:12:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Howard Lew <hlew@www2.shoppersnet.com> To: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com> Cc: Richard Foulk <richard@pegasus.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape native version Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970809010934.27972A-100000@www2.shoppersnet.com> In-Reply-To: <19970808160639.60094@vinyl.quickweb.com>
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On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Mark Mayo wrote: > On Fri, Aug 08, 1997 at 03:26:05AM -1000, Richard Foulk wrote: > > } On Thu, Aug 07, 1997 at 10:06:37PM -0700, Chad R. Larson wrote: > > > } Anyone else notice that it often just refuses to die?? I'd say about 60% > > } of the time for me, when I close it by selecting "Exit" from the menu, > > } or close the window using the window manager, Netscape disapears from > > } the screen, but a process list shows me it's still there, eating up > > } 20MB or RAM and burning away my CPU. 'kill -9' is your friend.. > > > > Dies just fine for me. > > > > } Also, the java performance just seems HORRIBLE with the FReeBSD version.. > > } Idon't know what they're doing, but for some reason the FreeBSD version > > } runs about 1000% slower than the Linux version of Communicator (and the > > } BSDI 3.0 series). > > > > My Java performance seems okay. Haven't tried the other versions yet > > to compare. > > Try the Linux version, or a version from 3.0 -- I'd really like to > know if it's just something with my setup, or if it's freebsd > commuicator barfing. For example, on my web page: > http://vinyl.quickweb.com/mark/ > > There is an applet that renders a reflection of a sunset onto a rippling > lake. On every Java browser I've used on every platform (including > by *old* 486 running oth FreeBSD and now Win95 - don't ask..) the appplet > runs fine and is very smooth. And generally the CPU usage is quite low. > Running Linux Communicator 4.0b6 on my FreeBSD machine (a PPro 166) > is fine as well. The FreeBSD native version, however, can't even smoothly > render the image, uses up 100% of the CPU, and even makes the mouse > jittery. Hmm. Something is definately wrong. > Hmmm... the video does look jittery... I wonder if it has to do with the XFree86 driver or just code in FreeBSD. Maybe this is why we do not have RealPlayer 4.0... :-(
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