From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 27 3:44:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from tele-post-20.mail.demon.net (tele-post-20.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7175114C0B; Thu, 27 May 1999 03:44:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by tele-post-20.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 10mxdw-000JCI-0K; Thu, 27 May 1999 10:44:09 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from support-3.uk.radan.com (support-3 [193.114.228.220]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id LAA02603; Thu, 27 May 1999 11:43:29 +0100 Received: from uk.radan.com by support-3.uk.radan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA20702; Thu, 27 May 1999 11:43:27 +0100 Message-ID: <374D2177.CA4A1AB8@uk.radan.com> Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 11:41:59 +0100 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en-GB MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eivind Eklund Cc: "John S. Dyson" , chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Note on my experience with Netscape 4.6 References: <199905270030.TAA08669@dyson.iquest.net> <374CEF9F.2FE8CA45@uk.radan.com> <19990527122201.A7840@bitbox.follo.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Eivind Eklund wrote: > > 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; Yes, my HD light doesn't flash, it stays on permanently. > 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. I'll try it, thanks for the tip > (It is one of the weirdest bugs I know of...) > Wierd is an understatement. > Eivind. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message