On 27-Jan-99 sth...@nethelp.no wrote: >> > In what sense do ye think VM_STACK is related to the Netscape issue? >> > I'd love to hear what ye think causes it to bomb... >> >> I haven't really messed with it too much, so right now I think it's >> related because testing makes it appear to be. i.e. if I have a kernel >> with VM_STACK Netscape will sig11 right after loading; without VM_STACK >> it's as stable as ever. I'd love to figure out why ps isn't working, >> though... > > Unfortunately, for some of us Netscape dying is not the problem. Netscape > *hanging* is the problem. For me, it appears to be related to DNS lookups > *and FreeBSD 3.0.
Steinaur, ye're referring to the dns helper process which gets spawned by Netscape? > If I run with MOZILLA_NO_ASYNC_DNS (ie. no DNS helper process), I often > get hangs. This did not happen with FreeBSD 2.2.8. It appears to happen > if name lookups take "too long". If I prime the cache on the DNS server > (eg. by looking up the name manually beforehand), *or* if I let Netscape > start a DNS helper process, I don't get these hangs. OK, that answered it ;) Do ye use the testbox as a nameserver? Because my box is configured as a primary nameserver with forwarding. It hangs as soon as name lookups go afoul. That's one reason towards a hang. Some other people have experienced and replicated java/javascript pages that also accounts to the hangs. Brian appears to have problems with the (new) stack and Netscape. IMHO those are three completely different things that do not appear to have anything in common. Any thoughts? --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven It's a Dance of Energy, asmodai(at)wxs.nl when the Mind goes Binary... Network/Security Specialist <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai> BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve <http://www.freebsd.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
