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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!insosf1.infonet.net!newshost.marcam.com!zip.eecs.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gatech!psuvax1!news.pop.psu.edu!hudson.lm.com!news.galt.com!phred.ws.cc.cmu.edu!alex From: alex@pc.cc.cmu.edu (alex wetmore) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: Re: Netscape on NetBSD Date: 23 Nov 1994 06:56:32 GMT Organization: Phred Networking Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3aup30$fnm@dagny.galt.com> References: <3aud6a$6cm@ivory.lm.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: phred.ws.cc.cmu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Peter Berger (peterb@telerama.lm.com) wrote: > Running the BSDI Netscape binary on NetBSD 1.0, my system experiences "hangs" > of up to 30 seconds where -nothing- happens -- even a vmstat just stops > reporting. Anyone ever see this before? > I've seen similar behavior when running xfontsel, but I'm not convinced the > two phenomena are related. This is probably from scaling fonts. If you don't have a fpu and you have the scaled fonts installed all of X will hang while it scales the fonts for you. I've removed the scalable fonts from my fontpath on my machine for this reason (its a 486sx/25). A terminal (or network connection or whatever) hooked up to the system probably works quite fine. > This is with XFree86 v. 3.1, by the way. I've haven't had good luck with 3.1 so far, so the above is from 2.1.1. alex