Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Brett Thomas" <> | Date | Tue, 24 Sep 1996 18:51:35 -0400 | Subject | Re: linux-kernel-digest V1 #507 |
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Mr. Shenk,
> From: "Eric Schenk" <schenk@cs.toronto.edu> > Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 15:10:12 -0400 > Subject: Re: Delay in job control > > Uwe Bonnes <bon@elektron.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de> writes: > >I looked a little more about the job control behaviour of netscape 3.0. > [Description of netscape slowing down, hanging]. > > I don't have any additional clues as to the cause, but I can confirm > that I have seen similar problems on a DX2/66 20Meg machine (32Meg swap). > > What I've had happen several times now is that just after initiating > a text search inside netscape my machine starts swaping madly > for anywhere from 10 seconds to a minute. After that X hangs completely. > No keyboard response, no mouse response. Nothing. I've left a machine > in this state for up to an hour. Something is still going, because > some scheduled cron jobs ran and registered in the system logs after > the console froze up. I'm guessing that X ran out of memory and > did not die gracefully, but I don't have any evidence to back this up. > > Occasionally I'll see the same sort of swaping behavior when running > netscape, followed by a freeze lasting between 30 seconds and 2 minutes, > after which the machine seems to recover itself and procede normally. > This behavior has occured throughout the 2.0.x kernels, and perhaps > earlier, although I can't recall for certain when it started. > > Up to now I haven't had enough information to really give a bug report, > but perhaps this information will give someone a clue as to what is happening. > - -- eric > > - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Eric Schenk www: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~schenk > Department of Computer Science email: schenk@cs.toronto.edu > University of Toronto
Just a suggestion - Netscape can write some HUGE files in your ~/.netscape directory (the history file especially) and feels compelled to write to them every few minutes, even if you've been staring at that page all the time. If it's been a year since you cleaned out that file, and/or your home directory is mounted across a network (this is when I notice the worst), you might want to take a look at it.
Granted, I don't experience the X hangs at the same time - X is still fairly usable while Netscape is doing this.
Good luck!
-Brett A. Thomas quark@baz.com
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