I have seen some weird paging behavior with netscape (4.76)
on 4.2 (beta, then stable as of 11/29). Sometimes netscape and X
get into a fight over memory, with both seeming to be largely non-resident
although there is free memory. I can usually provoke this by opening
an extra window in jsp (for example by clicking on the "vote" box on
www.cnn.com). Quitting netscape makes the symptom go away, in that
I can restart netscape without paging. This is on an smp P6/200
with 64 MB. I'm not running ppp.
When you get into the syndrome, run top and see if you're doing a lot
to swap with netscape largely non-resident.
Barney Wolff
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 02:49:26PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
>
> This latest began only after I ungraded to 4.X (I'm currently at 4.1
> and content). The problem is that occasionally my dialup thru-put
> drops to 5 or 10bps. Trying to get anything done via telecommuting
> is virtually impossible.
>
> One thing I thought it might be is the ``stray irq 7'' stderr
> messages... nope, don't think so. My latest clue was having 3
> netscapes instantiated. Out of the blue, my response went from
> normal to rotten. To get things back to normal there was only
> one rational move: shutdown -r.
>
> I'm thinking that this might be a system problem rathen than one
> with ppp. netscape and DNS? (?) I've seen one similar posting
> like this on -questions, but saw no response.
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