Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 10:30:44 +0000 From: "John McLaughlin" <jmcl@Acucobol.IE> To: Donald Burr <dburr@POBoxes.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Excessive crashing of Netscape? Message-ID: <199802091030.KAA03787@guinness.acucobol.ie> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980207064415.dburr@POBoxes.com>
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On 30 Jan 98 at 20:30, Donald Burr wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > I just installed Netscape (Communicator 4.04, the dynamically-linked > FreeBSD binary version) from the ports tree. > > Unfortunately, I am having some problems with it. > > On the whole, it seems to work ok; however, sometimes the program dies > (for no apparent reason) with a SIGBUS. > > Also, it locks up a lot. The lock up is complete (the little > "meteor shower" stops showering, and the process can't be killed - I have > to use a 'kill -KILL' to get rid of it). > > These things don't happen regularly -- I can be using Netscape perfectly > for hours and hours (my last Netscape process was running for over five > days before it went belly-up), and it crashes/hangs through different > actions (i.e. there is not one single set of actions that I can isolate > that cause it to die). > > My system is a P133 with 32MB EDO RAM and 3.2GB disk, running > 2.2.5-RELEASE (a clean install). > > Is anyone else having this problem with Netscape? Does the Linux version > work better? Any ideas what might be going wrong here? Yep, I've had both these problems as well. 4.03 had fairly consistent SIGBUS errors and was uninstalled pretty rapidly, 4.04 is better, though it still goes belly up occasionally, and has the occasional random lockup as well. It seems to happen most frequently in the page editor. Again, I'm only running with 32Mb RAM, which is probably a bit small for the damn thing. I think Doug suggested bad SIMMs as a possible cause, but I also have emacs constantly running, which is fairly memory heavy, and which has never crashed. I've also done a few `make world's on the machine (the buildworld done in multi-user mode), which should weed out any flaky SIMMs I'd guess. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message
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