On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Marco Peereboom wrote:

> My current best theory is that the brand new link prefetch stuff (ugh!)
> is easting gobs of file descriptors while another site is loading.  So
> when webkit tries to establish a connection to get like favicon or css
> it runs out and renders the pages sans css or favicon (missing pictures
> etc etc).  The link prefetch can't be disabled since it doesn't have a
> knob.  I am trying to reason with the webkit people (again) that
> anything prefetch is not really that great for everybody.

Well, if there a way we could introduce such a knob in the port then?

> In xxxterm the file descriptor starvation has other fun side effects
> because it opens and closes files left and right for things like state,
> bookmarks, etc.
> 
> The easiest way to see this in action is having like 10 tabs created at
> startup.  This usually results in pages not being rendered correctly and
> xxxterm complaining it can't open files.
> 
> There is some evidence too that on top of this there is also a fd leak
> somewhere as well.
> 
> 

-- 
Antoine

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