Messages in this thread | | | From | doctor@fruitbat ... | Subject | Re: That whole Netscape problem... | Date | Wed, 20 Jan 1999 16:27:02 -0800 (PST) |
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Ely Wilson said ... > > 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..
I find it interesting that many people have this problem with Netscape. I've been running 4.51 for around 4 months (under 2.0.x) and never had it hang or die. With previous releases of Netscape there was some instability, but usually I just upgrade my libc and it settled down. When Netscape was developed (as with most products) a certain environment was used, ie: certain level of the kernel, libc, binutils, etc. Perhaps Netscape should published the exact environment the product was built and tested under as a way for people to figure out how their environment differs. Making a blanket statement that 'product XYZ will work with a 2.0 kernel' will almost always be false on someones system. And usually it's environmental.
-- Peter A. Castro (doctor@fruitbat.org) or (pcastro@us.oracle.com)
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