Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 10:02:31 -0400 From: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com> To: "Bryan K. Ogawa" <bkogawa@primenet.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape native version Message-ID: <19970808100231.50593@vinyl.quickweb.com> In-Reply-To: <199708080913.CAA05820@foo.primenet.com>; from Bryan K. Ogawa on Fri, Aug 08, 1997 at 02:13:41AM -0700 References: <21563.863844380@time.cdrom.com> <9708080506.AA27349@chad.anasazi.com> <19970808014355.44693@vinyl.quickweb.com> <199708080913.CAA05820@foo.primenet.com>
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On Fri, Aug 08, 1997 at 02:13:41AM -0700, Bryan K. Ogawa wrote: > In localhost.freebsd.stable you write: > > >Finally, Communicator locked up on me last night - actuallly it locked > >up and took out my system with it.. complete freeze. X was still > >"displaying", but the keyboard and mouse were dead. The machine wouldn't > >even answer pings... complete freeze. Needless to say, since I've been > >running FreeBSD (almost 2 years) this is the first time this has ever > >happened to me. Lock up. Not even a crash. Nothing is worse, and horrible > >images of win95 were filling my head. > > I'm very interested in information on this bug (which I think I've > ironed out of my system). > > 1. What bpp are you running? 16bpp. > 2. Are you running Xaccel or XFree? AccelX v1.3 > 3. Which video card are you running? Matrox Millenium > 4. Are you running with Backing Store and/or SaveUnders? Backing Store turned off (to fix a bug in AccelX), SaveUnders still turned on. FWIW, when I did have Backing Store on it would be fairly nornal to see the Netscape/AccelX combined memory usage grow to between 40 and 50MB... with Backing Store off, Netscape usually hovers in the 16-20MB range, with AccelX weighing in at about 8MB. Certainly heavyweights by anybody's standards! :-) > 5. How much swap/memory do you have? 95MB swap, 48MB RAM. PPro 166, full NCR SCSI. > 6. Do you have a large bookmarks.html ? Yes, actually! If you have any clues, I'd love to here about them. FWIW, when I was running 4.0b6 (the Linux binaries) I didn't have these problems. It will still a memory pig, but it didn't crash out. The FreeBSD version misbehaves all the time, from not returning the cursor to an arrow after it was the "busy watch", to just plain crashing (often when I hit the back button). -Mark > > If anyone else sees this problem (total freeze under X), I'm > interested in hearing about it! > > Thanks. > > -- > bryan k ogawa <bkogawa@primenet.com> http://www.primenet.com/~bkogawa/ -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com RingZero Comp. http://vinyl.quickweb.com/mark finger mark@quickweb.com for my PGP key and GCS code ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- University degrees are a bit like adultery: you may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't want to be thought incapable. -Sir Peter Imbert
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