Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 12:29:30 -0700 (PDT) From: "Bryan K. Ogawa" <bkogawa@primenet.com> To: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape native version Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970808121834.11723B-100000@foo.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <19970808100231.50593@vinyl.quickweb.com>
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On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Mark Mayo wrote: > On Fri, Aug 08, 1997 at 02:13:41AM -0700, Bryan K. Ogawa wrote: > > In localhost.freebsd.stable you write: > > > > >Finally, Communicator locked up on me last night - actuallly it locked > > >up and took out my system with it.. complete freeze. X was still > > >"displaying", but the keyboard and mouse were dead. The machine wouldn't > > >even answer pings... complete freeze. Needless to say, since I've been > > >running FreeBSD (almost 2 years) this is the first time this has ever > > >happened to me. Lock up. Not even a crash. Nothing is worse, and horrible > > >images of win95 were filling my head. > > > > I'm very interested in information on this bug (which I think I've > > ironed out of my system). Looks like we have a winner. (1/2 a :), 1/2 a :( ) > 16bpp. > AccelX v1.3 > Matrox Millenium > > 4. Are you running with Backing Store and/or SaveUnders? > > Backing Store turned off (to fix a bug in AccelX), SaveUnders still turned on. > FWIW, when I did have Backing Store on it would be fairly nornal to see the > Netscape/AccelX combined memory usage grow to between 40 and 50MB... with > Backing Store off, Netscape usually hovers in the 16-20MB range, with AccelX > weighing in at about 8MB. Certainly heavyweights by anybody's standards! :-) Try turning off SaveUnders. It's worked for me under Xaccel 3.1. > > 5. How much swap/memory do you have? > > 95MB swap, 48MB RAM. PPro 166, full NCR SCSI. I also doubled my swap (on a second drive) to 180M. I don't know if it helped anything else, but it seemed to speed things up (I only have 32M, and splitting it over two drives seems a fair bit quicker). > > 6. Do you have a large bookmarks.html ? > > Yes, actually! Just curious, but how big? Mine is 88K. > If you have any clues, I'd love to here about them. FWIW, when I was running > 4.0b6 (the Linux binaries) I didn't have these problems. It will still > a memory pig, but it didn't crash out. The FreeBSD version misbehaves all the > time, from not returning the cursor to an arrow after it was the "busy watch", > to just plain crashing (often when I hit the back button). I was able to get this problem to happen with the BSDI binaries (consistently) and even 3.01. The #1 way for me to trigger the bug is to open the bookmarks menu, and, holding down the mouse, scroll up and down over the sub-menus for a few seconds to a few minutes. This would lock my system pretty consistenly, but I haven't had an X-related lockup that I can think of since I turned off SaveUnders and added the swap (although it was grim for a while there--I would lock up 3 times in a night, and things like that). Not pretty. bryan k ogawa <bkogawa@primenet.com> http://www.primenet.com/~bkogawa/
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