Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 01:23:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Andriy Gapon <agapon@excite.com> To: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: serialized dns lookups in mozilla (follow-up) Message-ID: <20020725011632.O96436-100000@edge.foundation.invalid>
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Guys,
my bad, besides the patch another thing should be done.
Sorry that this is not a patch, just a description:
configure in nsprpub/ should be changed to define
_PR_HAVE_THREADSAFE_GETHOST
for FreeBSD. I'm pertty much sure that FreeBSD pthreads (libc_r) has
threadsafe versions of gethost*(), but without this macro it is assumed
that they are not threadsafe and so all requests are serialized by mutex
which totally defeats the purpose of dns resolving in parallel.
--
Andriy Gapon
*
"I don't mind going nowhere as long as it's an interesting path."
(c) Ronald Mabbitt
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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 22:14:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: Andriy Gapon <agapon@excite.com>
To: gnome@freebsd.org
Subject: serialized dns lookups in mozilla
Guys,
this is a really annoying feature/bug of Mozilla, probably those of you
who use it a lot, encountered it more than once -- if you try to open
something that has a "bad" name (like lame or very slow dns servers),
mozilla blocks until it gets a response or a timeout, meanwhile you can
not open any URLs with names in any window.
Looks like there is a patch for that, but mozilla folks seem to be swamped
with other work or to have just forgot about it.
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70213
especially comment #13
Could you please take a look at it and see if we can use it in the port.
Thank you.
--
Andriy Gapon
*
"I don't mind going nowhere as long as it's an interesting path."
(c) Ronald Mabbitt
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