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Date:      Sat, 9 Aug 1997 01:12:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Howard Lew <hlew@www2.shoppersnet.com>
To:        Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com>
Cc:        Richard Foulk <richard@pegasus.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Netscape native version
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.970809010934.27972A-100000@www2.shoppersnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <19970808160639.60094@vinyl.quickweb.com>

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On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Mark Mayo wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 08, 1997 at 03:26:05AM -1000, Richard Foulk wrote:
> > } On Thu, Aug 07, 1997 at 10:06:37PM -0700, Chad R. Larson wrote:
> 
> > } Anyone else notice that it often just refuses to die?? I'd say about 60%
> > } of the time for me, when I close it by selecting "Exit" from the menu,
> > } or close the window using the window manager, Netscape disapears from
> > } the screen, but a process list shows me it's still there, eating up
> > } 20MB or RAM and burning away my CPU. 'kill -9' is your friend..
> > 
> > Dies just fine for me.
> > 
> > } Also, the java performance just seems HORRIBLE with the FReeBSD version..
> > } Idon't know what they're doing, but for some reason the FreeBSD version
> > } runs about 1000% slower than the Linux version of Communicator (and the
> > } BSDI 3.0 series).
> > 
> > My Java performance seems okay.  Haven't tried the other versions yet
> > to compare.
> 
> Try the Linux version, or a version from 3.0 -- I'd really like to
> know if it's just something with my setup, or if it's freebsd
> commuicator barfing. For example, on my web page:
> http://vinyl.quickweb.com/mark/


> 
> There is an applet that renders a reflection of a sunset onto a rippling
> lake. On every Java browser I've used on every platform (including 
> by *old* 486 running oth FreeBSD and now Win95 - don't ask..) the appplet
> runs fine and is very smooth. And generally the CPU usage is quite low.
> Running Linux Communicator 4.0b6 on my FreeBSD machine (a PPro 166)
> is fine as well. The FreeBSD native version, however, can't even smoothly
> render the image, uses up 100% of the CPU, and even makes the mouse
> jittery. Hmm. Something is definately wrong.
> 

Hmmm... the video does look jittery... I wonder if it has to do with the
XFree86 driver or just code in FreeBSD.  Maybe this is why we do not have
RealPlayer 4.0...  :-(




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