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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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