Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Jan 1999 21:44:47 +0200 (EET) | From | Andrus Kangro <> | Subject | Re: That whole Netscape problem...(worse as approaches 2.2.0 release) |
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Hi,
I'm running 2.2.0-final, compiled and installed it today. I'm using Netscape 4.5 libc5 and haven't noticed any unusual problems from 2.0.36 jumping to 2.1.131 and up to 2.2.0-final. (I have to close and reopen it after couple of days, as it grows unnecessary big in memory and gets slower and slower)
May-be this is not netscape nor kernel problem, you just have to upgrade or recompile some package? (I had to recompile pcmcia-cs-3.0.7, had nice oops otherwise:-) Are you using old (or unstable snapshots from) (g)libc for excample?
Best regards, Andrus Kangro
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Graham TerMarsch wrote:
> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 23:48:31 +0000 > From: Graham TerMarsch <gtermars@home.com> > To: ptb@it.uc3m.es > Cc: doctor@fruitbat.org, plexus@ionet.net, shahin@ist.flinders.edu.au, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu > Subject: Re: That whole Netscape problem...(worse as approaches 2.2.0 release) > > "Peter T. Breuer" wrote: > > "A month of sundays ago doctor@fruitbat.org wrote:" > > > 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 > > > [.....snip.....] > > > > kernel 2.0.25-36, libc 5.4.38-46, ld.so 1.9.5. Watch out for ld.so > > with higher numbers, which I have found to do bad things to some > > convoluted things like java workshop. > > >From your msg here I see that you're running an older kernel, which puts your > machine into a different category. My original problem that I was having was > that as we've moved closer to 2.2.0 release, Netscape seems to have become > more and more unstable. This morning I installed 2.2.0pre8 and tried that > out; couldn't even keep Netscape open for more than a few minutes before it > just hung and I had to kill the process. So, for fun I backdated myself to a > 2.1.132 kernel; haven't had to kill Netscape at all since then (which is a far > cry from about every 10 or 15 minutes). > > It seems that some patch that got put into the kernel recently has at least > uncovered another bug in Netscape, and it's one that makes it almost > unusable. Unfortunately, being that it's something that's in fairly / .... /
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