From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 12 13:58:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C70037B422; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:58:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA21061; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 14:58:47 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA24564; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 14:58:46 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 14:58:46 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200009122058.OAA24564@nomad.yogotech.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: mmuir@es.co.nz Cc: Kris Kennaway , David Uhring , "O. Hartmann" , Mark Lovretovich , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape/Linux on FreeBSD an other horrors ... In-Reply-To: <39BE900B.66ACD55@es.co.nz> References: <39BE900B.66ACD55@es.co.nz> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Javascript isn't the big problem - Java is. There seem to be serious > > threading problems with the JVM which will wedge up the process if you > > breathe too heavily when an applet is loading. However I usually run with > > JS disabled too for security reasons, because I dont trust there not to be > > other undiscovered flaws in the JS implementation. > > I've noticed issues such as this with other ports, for example > MoneyDance (ports/deskutils) in which java_X seems to lock up now and > again while loading the program -- if it does succeed in loading, there > are no further problems [that i've seen] however. This is a JVM issues that was dealt with JDK 1.2.2 involving a race at startup. It happens to all Java applications at some time or the other. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message