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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU!usenet From: Glen Pill <glenp@rmit.edu.au> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: Re: Netscape on NetBSD Date: 27 Nov 1994 23:59:26 GMT Organization: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. Lines: 25 Message-ID: <3bb6gu$krq@aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU> References: <3aud6a$6cm@ivory.lm.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: alzarius.xx.rmit.edu.au NNTP-Posting-User: rxtgep peterb@telerama.lm.com (Peter Berger) 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 with XFree86 v. 3.1, by the way. I've noticed an interesting phenonema with NetBSD 0.9a and Xfree86 v2.x I get total Seg faults when I change the font size from the options menu. :) It restarts happily, so it's no big deal. Just an annoyance. But I certainly wouldn't pay for a program that contained such bugs. :) -- Glen Pill Internet : glenp@rmit.edu.au Tech. Officer Snail : 124 LaTrobe St, Melb. Oz. 3000 Network Services Phone : +61 3 660 2538 RMIT Computer Centre Fax : +61 3 663 5652 Glen.