Re: 2.1.98 Netscape hangs and more

George (greerga@nidhogg.ham.muohio.edu)
Tue, 28 Apr 1998 17:22:49 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Riley Williams wrote:

>I've been running Netscape under various kernels from 2.0.27 through
>2.0.33 and have only had it hang once, which was when I did a "swapoff
>-a" whilst it was running under 2.0.30 - and in my opinion, hangs
>caused by doing that are EXTREMELY unlikely to be kernel bugs...

I must be unlucky, my 2.0.29 used to do it around once or twice a
night...with a completely idle machine (28MB RAM) except for browsing in X.

Highly annoying. Sometimes it would be the EGAIN war, other times it would
be a infinitely restarting signal alarm problem...

-George

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