On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:06:56AM -0500, 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?
>
> Last time I suggested that I got my butt handed to me.
By upstream or by openbsd people?
BTW: I'm against a knob, too. If we patch it locally (in the port),
I'm for disabling all the prefetching stuff unconditionally, because
it's just plain stupid. If upstream accepts a knob (because they
obviously think that prefetching is clever), that's another story.
Ciao,
Kili
