On Wed, 27 Jan 1999 sth...@nethelp.no wrote: > > 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. > > 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.
My solution to this is to run a local copy of squid to do all the actual page fetching, and to turn netscape's memory and disk cache to 0 (this might not be necessary any more, but at some point it was claimed to help for something). Running 4.5 like this has been flawless (except when I disable the proxy for whatever reason and forget, which leads to NS hanging in fairly short order :-) Kris ----- (ASP) Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) announced today that the release of its productivity suite, Office 2000, will be delayed until the first quarter of 1901. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
