Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 09:15:06 -0700 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: "Eddie Irvine" <eirvine@tpgi.com.au> Cc: "James A. Mutter" <jmutter@insomnia.norden1.com>, "Rich Winkel" <rich@chumbly.math.missouri.edu>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FBSD Netscape 4.05 & Java & SCSI vs IDE Message-ID: <199804081615.JAA15416@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 Apr 1998 18:13:05 %2B1000." <01bd62c6$281121e0$a01a1acb@gretchen>
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> >> >From my limited experience with two ide pentium machines and multitudes
> >> of scsi pentium machines, netscape only crashes when attempting
> >> to run java on machines with scsi controllers. Machines with ide
> >> have no problem.
> >> Is this consistent with others' experiences?
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> >Nope, I've managed to crash it plenty on this IDE macine.
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> Me too. In fact, Netscape is the ONLY program that crashes for
> me on FreeBSD.
Netscape 4.x used to crash on FreeBSD and DEC UNIX. To fix it I did a
ulimit -s SOME_VERY_LARGE_NUMBER. This did fix the FreeBSD Netscape
crashes but did not fix it crashing under DEC UNIX.
Another problem I see with Netscape for FreeBSD is if you have Java
enabled and it is used during a session. Netscape will loop forever.
You can "exit" Netscape and the window will disappear, however the
process will continue to loop forever, keeping any sockets in a
CLOSE_WAIT status. Only a kill -9 will kill it.
Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437
Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766
UNIX Support OV/VM: BCSC02(CSCHUBER)
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