Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 16 Jun 1997 09:45:10 -0700 | | From | Jeffrey Wiegley <> | | Subject | Re: NS Communicator PR5, JavaScript Help CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! |
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I know you said "No 'don't use Netscape'" replies. But seriously...
4.0b5 is a piece of JUNK!!!
In case Netscape wasn't listening let me say rephrase that...
4.0b5 is a piece of JUNK!!!
I use it too (shoot me) and it crashes *ALL OVER THE PLACE*. emptying the trash folder, starting a new browser, opening a newsgroup, selecting messages, accidentally dragging a hyperlink will do it every time. all this and more crashes Netscape 4.0b5 and I haven't even tried to use JAVA yet.
maybe that have some general malloc error that is causing all these crashes and hopefully they'll have it fixed in 4.0b6
- Jeff
W. Reilly Cooley wrote: > > I've been trying to use the latest PR5 of Netscape Communicator and > met with > a disheartening failure. Using the included "Help" system, which > requires > JavaScript enabled caused nasty things to happen. Errors flashed by > having > to do with malloc on the xterm where I started it. Load avg went > sky-high. > Phyical memory and swap completely exhausted. System would respond to > nothing: CTRL-ALT-DEL, CTRL-ALT-Fx (it did once--but memory was too > short > even to do a 'ps' to get the pid so's I could kill the wild process), > CTRL-ALT-BKSPC. The grinding of my hard disk--the incessant swapping > about--continued unrelentingly for over twenty minutes (I know 20 min > b/c > strangely enough, xclock and xload, unlike every other process, > continued to > work almost normally), until I hit the "reset" button. > > My conjecture is that NS attempted to malloc(), thought the return > value > indicated that it failed and tried again, and again, and again... > (And > then there's copy-on-write.) > > It comes as no surprise to me that Netscape should be malfunctional. > What surprises me is that Linux was unable to recover. What should it > have done in such a circumstance? What should _I_ have done in such a > circumstance? > > Pls. no responses like "don't use Netscape" > > Wil > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------- > W. Reilly Cooley > NakedApe Consulting & Navi.Net representative > 1509 NE 10th Ave., #104 Portland, OR 97232 > 503 287-2165 wcooley@navi.net > www.navi.net/~wcooley www.navi.net/~nakedape
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