Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Netscape (v. 4.61 from MDK6.1 PowerPack) works fine here, BUT:
>
> Each time when it shows 'Looking up host foo.bar.foo' my cpu usage goes
> up to 100% and memory usage goes up about 2 or 3 MB per 5 seconds of
> 'Looking'.
> The used memory stays used so after looking up 4 or 5 different websites
> in a short session I have 10 to 15 MB more in the 'used+shared' meter of
> xosview.
> This also happens when I fetch my mail from the dialup mailserver.
>
> While starting with about 70MB (used+shared+buffered+cache) after KDE,
> Netscape and http is started I end up with using the swap partition
> after 2 or 3 days uptime..
>
> Short excerpt from 'top':
>
> 5:32pm up 3 days, 1:31, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.00, 0.00
> 52 processes: 51 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states: 0.7% user, 1.3% system, 0.0% nice, 97.8% idle
> Mem: 128148K av, 125016K used, 3132K free, 70400K shrd, 23020K buff
> Swap: 128484K av, 4684K used, 123800K free 39072K cached
>
> PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
> 400 wobo 0 0 29364 26M 7504 S 0 0.0 21.0 2:14 ld-linux.so.
> 333 root 5 0 25480 24M 2104 S 0 0.0 19.8 0:59 X
> 380 wobo 1 0 6460 6460 4216 S 0 0.0 5.0 0:02 kfm
> 379 wobo 0 0 5072 5072 3156 S 0 0.0 3.9 0:02 kpanel
> etc......
>
> The increasing process during 'looking up...' is the ld-linux.so.
>
> I have a normal dialup connection via ISDN and it is a standalone box,
> no local network attached.
>
> My /etc/hosts
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> 192.168.0.1 molch.earth2.com molch
> 193.158.139.134 onlinehome.de online
>
> molch is only used local (I know the domain exists somewhere).
> online is my ISP.
>
> My /etc/host.conf
> order hosts, bind
> multi on
>
> My /etc/resolv.conf
> search onlinehome.de
> nameserver 193.158.139.134
> nameserver 194.25.2.129
>
> Never had this problem with MDK 5.3 and Netscape 4.01. Anyone with a
> solution? Or is it somewhere and I just overlooked it? So just point me
> to the right URL please
>
> wobo
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Yep, a library is in there and running Netscape as a child, to set up
threads, it seems. Moreover, the Netscape is compiled against glibc
2.0... And might work very well on Festen.
I have experimented with Mozilla M11 and find it almost as stable as
Netscape 4.7 but still missing some features. It's total package size is
about 5.7Meg compared to quite a lot more for Netscape (triple, perhaps?).
It lacks the features we have all come to know and love (all of the pop-up
windows with commercial messages of vital importance ;-}). But its memory
use model is much better, and it is available for download at
http://www.mozilla.org.
(And, for those of you out there wanting to receive multiple emails in
separate inboxes a la Outlook, Mozilla has *Profiles* several of which can
be set up in one user space. Unfortunately, email filters are a "yet to be
implemented" feature.)
I would assess the difficulty as temporary and suggest the solution is to
recompile Netscape against the appropriate libraries. Of course, getting
anything done with Netscape (aka AOL) these days is like mating
elephants.... The other possibility is that Mozilla M12 will be usable out
of the box, or Opera will become available.
Civileme
