Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 23:03:24 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: Kristian Kennaway <kkennawa@iris> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape slowness in current Message-ID: <199710122203.XAA09859@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 12 Oct 1997 23:12:39 %2B0930." <9710121342.AA01503@iris>
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> I've recently upgraded to -current, and for the first few days everything > worked great. After a recent cvsup (in which I noticed a lot of changes to > the malloc routines - which may or may not be related), netscape is now > taking AGES to start up - it just sits there for 5 minutes or more > chewing up CPU but doing nothing. > > Sometimes it eventually starts, after which it seems to work fine - but > other times I can just leave it seemingly indefintelty and it never > starts, or starts but doesnt actually load any webpages, just sits there > looking stupid. > > This is with both the 3.0 linux port, as well as both versions (fbsd and > linux) of 4.03. Both worked reasonably (apart from regular crashes which > I suspect are still due to java implementation) under 2.2-stable and for > the first couple of days I was running current. > > Any ideas? If you're using ppp, I've just un-spammed the code. It was screwed up by me on the sixth of this month. The spammed version runs at about 1/4 speed and spends a lot of time "hiccuping" when traffic is high. Good versions are now in 2.2, -current and on http://www.freebsd.org/~brian Sorry folks. > Kris -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <bri@OpenBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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