Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 01:10:08 +0200 From: Morten Rodal <morten@rodal.no> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: threads@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libthr/libkse and Mozilla Firebird Message-ID: <20030906231008.GA55221@slurp.rodal.no> In-Reply-To: <3F5A5852.CF901356@mindspring.com> References: <20030906114048.GA598@atlantis.rodal.no> <3F5A5852.CF901356@mindspring.com>
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--cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 02:57:38PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > Morten Rodal wrote: > > Is Mozilla Firebird (www/mozilla-firebird ; firebird-gtk2-0.6.1_1) > > supposed to work with either libthr or libkse? > >=20 > > While with libkse it works, for a little while. After starting up I > > can perhaps render half a page, sometimes a two or three pages, before > > firebird just exits. Nothing is printed on the console and no core > > dump is found, it is as if the program just called exit(2). I wish I > > could provide more detailed debugging, but I am having trouble getting > > firebird to run from within gdb.. >=20 > If you don't move the mouse until the page is finished loading, > does it work? >=20 I tried browsing without the mouse (kinda hard actually), but I was still able to get it to "crash." > If so, you need Daniel Eishen's patch to the scheduler to make it > operate in FIFO order instead of priority order. Historically, the > image rendering code in Netscape hasn't been thread-safe, and it > may be that Mozilla has inherited this infirmity. > Is there a performance impact on this patch? As for the images, I think you might be on to something there. As it seems to be more likely to crash on pages with many images. --=20 Morten Rodal --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/WmlPbWe1Cy11WVsRAmN0AKDI0kVjdXzyzNRF+kgLMf9nyzo1JwCffkzp 99QBXNJZb67p9lDiJ4Wy2BY= =TA6o -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e--
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