On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 19:42:36, Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Jack Troughton wrote: > >> When I shut down mozilla, my system "locks" for very long periods of >> time... up to several minutes sometimes. Basically, my input queue >> appears to be hosed, and it can take a long period of time for the >> system to recover. I can hear intermittent disk activity during this >> time, and I can move the mouse but the clock doesn't update. I tried >> setting disk cache to zero, but that doesn't seem to have made much >> difference. > >> I'm actually using 0.9.5 2001101616. I admit it could be my system; >> I have an ancient P200MMX w/ 96 MB RAM... thank God for SCSI; it >> means that this system is still usable after all these years;). I'm >> wondering if there's some sort of setting I can change that might >> improve this situation. I don't know what it's doing during that >> several minutes that it's shutting down, but it sure is busy... > >MCP XR_C001 and 14.072_W4 kernel here with 256 Mb. I get similar >behavior shutting down 2.02 after having had it open a couple days or >more and using it plenty. If little or briefly used, no problem with >shutdown. With 4.61 I rarely see the same thing, as rarely do I have it >open any length of time, shutting it down often to switch mail profiles. >Mozilla I can't keep open more than a couple hours or so before it >destroys the desktop forcing a reboot. I'm on 2001102819 now and haven't >had to reboot because of it yet, but neither have left it open any >length of time. PMView can't be used very long at a time either, so I'm >guessing there is still trouble in PMMERGE.DLL even though the 4.61 16th >shutdown hang is gone. That very interesting. In fact, I've had problems with PMView as well. However, I don't know that it's pmmerge related, as I don't have XR_C001. I have the new kernel on, so perhaps that's it... -- ---------------------------------------------------------- * Jack Troughton jake at jakesplace.dhs.org * * http://jakesplace.dhs.org ftp://jakesplace.dhs.org * * Montr�al PQ Canada news://jakesplace.dhs.org * ----------------------------------------------------------
