Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 09:54:47 +0930 (CST) From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: bkogawa@primenet.com (Bryan K. Ogawa) Cc: spork@super-g.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, dan@dpcsys.com Subject: Re: Netscape & floating point core dumps? Message-ID: <199708060024.JAA00502@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199708052032.NAA03749@foo.primenet.com> from "Bryan K. Ogawa" at "Aug 5, 97 01:32:32 pm"
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Bryan K. Ogawa writes: >> list changed to -questions] > > In localhost.freebsd.hackers you write: > >> I let the port do the work on this one; today when I logged in and started >> X Netscape was very happy... It actually seems *better*??!! than 3.0... >> Java is faster, table draws are faster, and it seems to chomp less CPU >> time. I'm happy so far. > > Agreed. I mostly like it, but I'm having a weird problem occassionally. > > Sometimes, when I start it up, it starts up, but no window is > displayed. Looking at the systat -vmstat output, the Trp column has > **** in it, or a very large number (e.g. in the 10's of thousands). > > This is with a Matrox Millenium, 24bpp, with Xaccel 3.1 and > BackingStore /SaveUnders not set to Yes in my /etc/Xaccel.ini. > > I've sent this one off to Xi so I figure they'll have to comment on > it, but if anyone has any tips, I'd love to hear them. > > What seems to trigger this is not having enough real memory free when > starting -- I just doubled my swap space, so I know I have plenty of > swap, but I only have 32 megs of RAM and I'm running 24bpp. I suspect > that for some reason, netscape can't initialize sufficient buffers > which it wants to be in real RAM for some reason or another. > > If I run a RAM-gobbling program (or two) immediately before starting > netscape, that seems to help, or if I've gotten netscape to run for a > sufficiently long time... > > Anyone else seeing anything strange like this? This looks vaguely like the problems I have been seeing. Interestingly, I'm also using Xi and a Matrox Millenium, though my configuration uses two monitors, and because of a bug in the Xi server (displays large fonts incorrectly on the Millenium), I open my Netscape window on an ATI Mach 64 display. Feel free to forward this message to Xi. In my case, Netscape frequently loops, either before starting up or after finishing. It doesn't seem to be doing any system calls. I haven't reported this, because Netscape complains about down-rev libraries when it starts up. I wanted to get the correct libraries first and start again. I'm not in a hurry. > The other thing I suspect is login.conf -- I upped my settings once, > but I'm wondering if I need to up them again for netscape. I wouldn't have thought so. Greg
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