From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 12 15:03:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA19864 for current-outgoing; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 15:03:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA19851 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 15:03:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.demon.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA09859; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 23:03:24 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <199710122203.XAA09859@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Kristian Kennaway cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape slowness in current In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 12 Oct 1997 23:12:39 +0930." <9710121342.AA01503@iris> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 23:03:24 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I've recently upgraded to -current, and for the first few days everything > worked great. After a recent cvsup (in which I noticed a lot of changes to > the malloc routines - which may or may not be related), netscape is now > taking AGES to start up - it just sits there for 5 minutes or more > chewing up CPU but doing nothing. > > Sometimes it eventually starts, after which it seems to work fine - but > other times I can just leave it seemingly indefintelty and it never > starts, or starts but doesnt actually load any webpages, just sits there > looking stupid. > > This is with both the 3.0 linux port, as well as both versions (fbsd and > linux) of 4.03. Both worked reasonably (apart from regular crashes which > I suspect are still due to java implementation) under 2.2-stable and for > the first couple of days I was running current. > > Any ideas? If you're using ppp, I've just un-spammed the code. It was screwed up by me on the sixth of this month. The spammed version runs at about 1/4 speed and spends a lot of time "hiccuping" when traffic is high. Good versions are now in 2.2, -current and on http://www.freebsd.org/~brian Sorry folks. > Kris -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....