Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 14:26:33 +0900 (JST) From: grog@lemis.com To: mbrady@appliedtheory.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Re: Anyone noticed the new FreeBSD Netscape looping? Message-ID: <199708140526.OAA00327@papillon.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <33F1B44F.140BF509@brady.appliedtheory.com> from Michael Brady at "Aug 13, 97 09:19:12 am"
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Michael Brady writes: > Mike O'Brien wrote: > >> I've noticed that the new FreeBSD-specific Netscape 4.02b<whatever> >> seems to have a tendency to go into a hard loop upon trying to exit. >> >> However, this looping behavior is worrisome because it doesn't >> happen every time, just 2/3 of the time. This Is Not Good. > > This happens on my workstation too (I'm running 2.2.2, 40MB) when Netscape > exits (never when it opens). It only happens when Java was loaded onto the > browser to view pages with applets. All the windows close, yet the process > remains and absorbs all the cpu in an infinite RUN state. The only way to kill > it is with a kill -9. It sucks. > > I'm going to try a ktrace the next time it happens to see whats going on. Don't bother. It's looping on a SIGALRM. Since it calls gettimeofday() (or some such) every time, it looks as if it's miscalculating a parameter to alarm(). Greg
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