From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 30 18:34:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.cray.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACD4637B400 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 18:34:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from thought.org (tao.sea.tera.com [207.108.223.55]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA29882; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 18:34:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kline@localhost) by thought.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) id eB12Y2E05442; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 18:34:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 18:34:02 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Barney Wolff Cc: Gary Kline , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: could netscape hose my dialup modem traffic? Message-ID: <20001130183401.A5295@tao.thought.org> References: <200011302249.eAUMnR702098@thought.org> <20001130180137.A26838@pit.databus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20001130180137.A26838@pit.databus.com>; from barney@pit.databus.com on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 06:01:37PM -0500 X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 06:01:37PM -0500, Barney Wolff wrote: > I have seen some weird paging behavior with netscape (4.76) > on 4.2 (beta, then stable as of 11/29). Sometimes netscape and X > get into a fight over memory, with both seeming to be largely non-resident > although there is free memory. I can usually provoke this by opening > an extra window in jsp (for example by clicking on the "vote" box on > www.cnn.com). Quitting netscape makes the symptom go away, in that > I can restart netscape without paging. This is on an smp P6/200 > with 64 MB. I'm not running ppp. > > When you get into the syndrome, run top and see if you're doing a lot > to swap with netscape largely non-resident. > Thanks for the insight. Next time I'll check top iff that's an option; it wasn't today. Really bizarre side effect of , wow... . gary -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message