From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 8 09:21:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA01719 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 09:21:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (passer.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.110.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA01631 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 09:20:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cschuber@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.8/8.6.10) id JAA15416; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 09:15:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199804081615.JAA15416@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> Received: from localhost(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "passer.osg.gov.bc.ca" via SMTP by localhost, id smtpdaaCwga; Wed Apr 8 09:15:48 1998 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 Reply-to: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-Sender: cschuber To: "Eddie Irvine" cc: "James A. Mutter" , "Rich Winkel" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FBSD Netscape 4.05 & Java & SCSI vs IDE In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 08 Apr 1998 18:13:05 +1000." <01bd62c6$281121e0$a01a1acb@gretchen> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 09:15:06 -0700 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > > >> >From my limited experience with two ide pentium machines and multitudes > >> of scsi pentium machines, netscape only crashes when attempting > >> to run java on machines with scsi controllers. Machines with ide > >> have no problem. > >> Is this consistent with others' experiences? > > >Nope, I've managed to crash it plenty on this IDE macine. > > > Me too. In fact, Netscape is the ONLY program that crashes for > me on FreeBSD. Netscape 4.x used to crash on FreeBSD and DEC UNIX. To fix it I did a ulimit -s SOME_VERY_LARGE_NUMBER. This did fix the FreeBSD Netscape crashes but did not fix it crashing under DEC UNIX. Another problem I see with Netscape for FreeBSD is if you have Java enabled and it is used during a session. Netscape will loop forever. You can "exit" Netscape and the window will disappear, however the process will continue to loop forever, keeping any sockets in a CLOSE_WAIT status. Only a kill -9 will kill it. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 UNIX Support OV/VM: BCSC02(CSCHUBER) ITSD BITNET: CSCHUBER@BCSC02.BITNET Government of BC Internet: cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca Cy.Schubert@gems8.gov.bc.ca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message