Re: Problems with netscape in 2.0.24

Harald Koenig (koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de)
Wed, 6 Nov 1996 13:53:14 +0100 (MET)

> There may be bugs in netscape, but there are also bugs in the Xserver,
> at least in the S3 server, version 3.1.2G. Netscape does manage to put
> the server in a dead state, where the keyboard and mouse don't answer.
> The only solution is to kill -9 (other signals don't work) the Xserver
> from the net.
>
> So netscape isn't the only guilty here.

are you really sure that you're not just running out of virtual memory
(which is pretty common when using netscrape:-( ?

if not, which card and server output ? what about XFree86 3.2 ?
is there a way to reproduce these hangs ?

Harald

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