Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 18:01:37 -0500 From: Barney Wolff <barney@pit.databus.com> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: could netscape hose my dialup modem traffic? Message-ID: <20001130180137.A26838@pit.databus.com> In-Reply-To: <200011302249.eAUMnR702098@thought.org>; from kline@thought.org on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 02:49:26PM -0800 References: <200011302249.eAUMnR702098@thought.org>
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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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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