Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Jan 1999 19:15:21 -0600 | From | "Robert G. 'Doc' Savage" <> | Subject | Re: That whole Netscape problem... |
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Ely,
This is almost certainly NOT a Linux problem.
All Netscape versions 4.0x and 4.5 are infamous for randomly becoming zombies upon exit under Windows NT 4.0, their undead corpses continuing to consume up to 90% of CPU cycles until killed with Task Manager. The chances of this happening in any one session are low (<<1%), but with a dozen or more NT machines with Netscape it's a mathematical certainty I'll see at least one occurance per week.
This also happens under Solaris 2.5.1. Just two weeks ago I was called in on a Saturday to kill a zombie Netscape 4.5 process that had brought an Ultra 10 workstation to its virtual knees. In a month I'll have two dozen of these workstations running Netscape 4.5 on a three shift 24/7 basis. I'm not looking forward to getting calls in the middle of the night.
I *AM* looking forward to the GPL (I hope) release of Mozilla 5.0 so we can finally find and fix whatever is causing this problem.
--Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL
At 02:26 1/20/99 -0700, Ely Wilson wrote: >Netscape 4.x has been 'spontaneously shutting down' since as far as I can >recall, on >both Debian and RedHat, under 2.0 and 2.1 kernels. This is nothing kernel >related, >maybe indirectly if at all. This is a problem that should be taken up with >Netscape >(or whoever it is that manages the browser source code) since this has been >a long >standing problem among a great many users of all kernel versions. > >Maybe it uses a bad memory management scheme under Linux/Unix and it >surfaces itself >under Linux/X Windows. This is a posibility, but I wouldn't stick my neck >out so >far (on he lkml) and say it's kernel related, because tehre are MANY X apps >that >don't spontaneously close themselves. If it were a less centralized problem... >well..
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