From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 27 9:37: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from iquest3.iquest.net (iquest3.iquest.net [209.43.20.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AE88214F6E for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 09:36:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (qmail 26524 invoked from network); 27 May 1999 16:36:54 -0000 Received: from dyson.iquest.net (198.70.144.127) by iquest3.iquest.net with SMTP; 27 May 1999 16:36:54 -0000 Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id LAA10189; Thu, 27 May 1999 11:36:53 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199905271636.LAA10189@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Note on my experience with Netscape 4.6 In-Reply-To: <19990527122201.A7840@bitbox.follo.net> from Eivind Eklund at "May 27, 99 12:22:01 pm" To: eivind@FreeBSD.ORG (Eivind Eklund) Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 11:36:53 -0500 (EST) Cc: marko@uk.radan.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > On Thu, May 27, 1999 at 08:09:19AM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > > > > 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...) > If your window is the focus, then perhaps some kind of operation between the application and X server is happening? I have noticed (a long time ago) that things like huge scroll regions are very slow to manipulate... Wonder if this is a similar problem? (I haven't done any X programming for probably 5yrs now.) John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message