From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 12 20:32:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA16528 for stable-outgoing; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 20:32:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA16508 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 20:32:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id MAA11708; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 12:59:38 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199708130329.MAA11708@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Netscape native version In-Reply-To: from Howard Lew at "Aug 9, 97 01:12:19 am" To: hlew@www2.shoppersnet.com (Howard Lew) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 12:59:38 +0930 (CST) Cc: mark@quickweb.com, richard@pegasus.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Howard Lew stands accused of saying: > > > > 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... :-( Try moving the mouse rapidly over the Netscape window and watch the animation smooth out. This is, I suspect, almost certainly a problem with their use of select()'s timeout argument or another misunderstanding regarding periodic timing signals. Anyone here have a hook into the team at Netscape? -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[