Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 16:33:23 +0100 From: sthaug@nethelp.no To: green@unixhelp.org Cc: asmodai@wxs.nl, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: One answer, one question. Message-ID: <20704.917451203@verdi.nethelp.no> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 27 Jan 1999 10:28:03 -0500 (EST)" References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901271026040.1310-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
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> > In what sense do ye think VM_STACK is related to the Netscape issue? I'd > > love to hear what ye think causes it to bomb... > > I haven't really messed with it too much, so right now I think it's related > because testing makes it appear to be. i.e. if I have a kernel with VM_STACK > Netscape will sig11 right after loading; without VM_STACK it's as stable as > ever. I'd love to figure out why ps isn't working, though... Unfortunately, for some of us Netscape dying is not the problem. Netscape *hanging* is the problem. For me, it appears to be related to DNS lookups *and FreeBSD 3.0. If I run with MOZILLA_NO_ASYNC_DNS (ie. no DNS helper process), I often get hangs. This did not happen with FreeBSD 2.2.8. It appears to happen if name lookups take "too long". If I prime the cache on the DNS server (eg. by looking up the name manually beforehand), *or* if I let Netscape start a DNS helper process, I don't get these hangs. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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