Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 12:22:01 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> Cc: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Note on my experience with Netscape 4.6 Message-ID: <19990527122201.A7840@bitbox.follo.net> In-Reply-To: <374CEF9F.2FE8CA45@uk.radan.com>; from Mark Ovens on Thu, May 27, 1999 at 08:09:19AM %2B0100 References: <199905270030.TAA08669@dyson.iquest.net> <374CEF9F.2FE8CA45@uk.radan.com>
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On Thu, May 27, 1999 at 08:09:19AM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > "John S. Dyson" wrote: > > > > Gang, > > Didn't know where to post this, so just thought > > that I'd tell you that if you are running the > > Linux version of 4.6, give the FreeBSD version a > > try if you can. It really seems LOTS faster on > > startup, and might even be faster in general for > > some reason. > > > > Thanks for the tip. > > Have they fixed the crap text search algorithm yet? With 4.5 you > measure the search time for large (couple of hundred KB) HTML docs in > minutes! Actually, this does not seem to be a problem with the search algorithm, but rather with something in the redraw code. The long search time is due to memory use and swapping; I don't know exactly how it manage to use memory, though. I do know the workaround, though: Move the requester where you enter the search term outside the window where you have the actual webpage. (It is one of the weirdest bugs I know of...) Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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