On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, paul wrote: paul >1) whenever I launch netscape, top shows that netscape spawns itself as child paul >process either one or two times. Why does this happen? Is this normal paul >behavior for Netscape? If so, then why is the number of "child" Netscapes not paul >always the same?
not sure paul >2) Whenever Netscape launches more than one "child" netscape, it hangs (for paul >varying amounts of time) before the browser becomes visible on my display. paul >Sometimes it never appears, and my xserver (XF86_SVGA) begins to eat up paul >processor time. Why is this. What is happening here? No other processes paul >seem to be affected. (at least as is apparent from output of top.) netscape uses a child called dns-helper and it tries to resolve some of the netscape domains to see if DNS is working and because(i believe) of the single threaded tcp portion of netscape this locks the browser until the resolution is complete. this should only happen on initial startup though. also when netscape is doing the lookup most of the time cpu % goes to 100% paul >3) Often sites with banner adds will cause Netscape to hang if java and/or paul >javascript is enabled. I do not keep them enabled, but some sites require paul >them for various reasons. Other times this has caused Netscape to dissapear paul >from my display, (crash?) but Netscape continues to run in the backround and paul >begins to eat up processes and memory. Once this happened and a mysterious paul >symbolic link appeared in the home directory I was using before I could shut paul >down Netscape. (this happened somewhere in the domain http://www.playboy.com) paul > Are there hostile Java applets? Javascripts? How can I continue to use paul >Netscape while minimizing security risks? (If there are security risks paul >associated with Netscape 4.7) happens to me a lot too, i try to keep java/javascript off for most things, and turn it on for things that need it, if it crashes i just dont go to the site. and i mail the webmaster to fix his page. nate ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 10:55am up 159 days, 23:02, 1 user, load average: 1.19, 1.17, 1.11
