From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 6 12:08:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA09730 for current-outgoing; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 12:08:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from mail.san.rr.com (san.rr.com [204.210.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA09719 for ; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 12:08:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Received: from dal.net (dt051n19.san.rr.com [204.210.32.25]) by mail.san.rr.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA14460; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 12:08:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3489B063.68804676@dal.net> Date: Sat, 06 Dec 1997 12:06:59 -0800 From: Studded X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Hocking CC: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Oddity with netscape and current References: <199712061101.VAA00582@zzshocki.dialin.uq.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Stephen Hocking wrote: > > Quite a lot I find that after launching netscape, itwill go into a > tight loop, consuming all the CPU on a ration of about 30% user & 70% system. > This has just happened, at src-cur.3160. Has anyone else seen it? This is > netscape 4.04 communicator. I had this happen a few times right after I installed it (on a -Stable system), and I think that it was related to a mismatch between the number of display colors netscape was trying to use, and what I had avail. When I set X to start with 16 bpp this problem went away. If you want to save yourself some ram, try setting the MOZILLA_NO_ASYNC_DNS=True environment variable for the user who starts X. This prevents the ram-sucking "dns helper" that netscape spawns, and never worked right for me anyway. What I am still having problems with if anyone has a suggestion is pasting into netscape from an xterm. It doesn't work for me at all, and it's making me nuts. I'm using afterstep if that makes a difference, but I can't see that it would. Any help welcome. Doug