Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 14:28:37 +0900 (JST) From: grog@lemis.com To: hlew@www2.shoppersnet.com (Howard Lew) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Re: Anyone noticed the new FreeBSD Netscape looping? Message-ID: <199708140528.OAA00337@papillon.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970812210431.22554B-100000@www2.shoppersnet.com> from Howard Lew at "Aug 12, 97 09:07:03 pm"
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Howard Lew writes: > On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, 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. >> Occasionally it does it when starting. >> >> I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE on a machine with 16Mb of >> memory, and I'm here to tell you that this puppy page-thrashes, especially >> when you try using the newsreader section. The solution to that is, >> "Buy more memory," or, alternatively, "Run a Web browser that's not such >> a pig." >> >> However, this looping behavior is worrisome because it doesn't >> happen every time, just 2/3 of the time. This Is Not Good. > > I wonder if this has to do with 2.2.1 because I have seen quite a number > of users with 2.2.1 reporting problems too. But it seems to run fine on > 2.2.2 except for the occasional startup pause (15 to 20 seconds)... > Occurs once in a while. I'm running 3.0-current. It happens to me too. Greg
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