RE: Netscape disappears at times

[Gerry Doris <gdoris home com>]

I have netscape running on two linux boxes.  One is a 486/133 and the other is 
a P2/400.  I have had the "disappearing act" only happen on the 486.  It
doesn't happen often but is repeatable when I hit that "special" site.

I believe it has to do with the speed of the processor.  I believe that the
slower systems have problems with netscape on some of the very intensive sites.
When that happens netscape just "disappears".

It doesn't happen for me on the esprit site (although the printing on the
missing kids banner is all scrunched up and is unreadable).

Gerry


On 27-Feb-99 Chuck Hawks wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Here we are again with a puzzler.
> 
> When I go to some websites, for an example http://www.esprit.net, (not
> picking on this one michael, it's just the latest to do so), my Netscape
> just up and disappears. No worning, just goes away. I can restart and go
> from there, just not at those sites that cause problems.
> 
> On Michaels site, it loads enough for me to see the page then it goes
> bye-bye. I looked at my /var/log files and found nothing pertaining to
> the problem.
> 
> Running Red Hat 5.2 with all updates as of last week, except the kernal
> updates (still trying to correctly compile the kernal. now stock
> 2.0.36-.07 kernal.)
> 
> I have 64 meg swap, the / is over 900 meg.
> 
> Running AMD 486DX-100
> Quantum 2.5 Gig HD (bios only allows 2.1 so thats what it's set to)
>     (500 Meg DOS/WIN3.11, 300 meg free DOS, 900+ meg Linux native, 64
> meg linux swap)
> 16 meg fast-page parity memory (I think this might be the problem, but
> not sure)
> 
> This is with having Start, nxterm, UserNet, Netscape 3.0.4 running.
> (This version seems to be smaller and 4.x.x was locking up my machine. I
> had to login on another console and kill user:chuck to free up that
> console. go figure.
> 
> Top gives:
> 
> mem:   14652k av   14482k used   504k free 7520k shared
> swap:  64508k av    6876k used  57632k free 
> 
> Netscape uses between 26% to 35% of memory used.
> 
> 16 meg of memory is planned for (payed from my account at the IRS)
> 
> If this is the case, any ideas possibly to force the machine to use more
> swap for this?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Chuck
> 
> -- 
> Chuck Hawks
> Greenfield, TN, USA-NA
> Linux GNUbie since November 1998
> Red Hat 5.2 - Netscape 3.0.4
> 
> 
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E-Mail: Gerry Doris <gdoris home com>
Date: 27-Feb-99
Time: 15:32:41

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