Re: www/firefox on NetBSD/m68k ?

[Tim & Alethea Larson <thelarsons3%cox.net@localhost>]

John Klos wrote:
> > How could I monitor this?  I've been building fairly steadily and been 
> > up for 42 days this time.  I know some people had reported problems 
> > but I haven't experienced any on my (relatively lightly used) machines.
>
> You can look at the "RES" size reported in top for any of the kernel 
> tasks, such as ioflush or reaper. On an Amiga running NetBSD 1.6.2 with 
> 256 megs of memory, usage never exceeds 50 megs or so. On a NetBSD 3 
> machine with 128 megs, it hovers around 20-30 megs.

Thanks, I will try to keep an eye on it.

> > Try building the firefox-gtk1 package; that's the one I was working 
> > on, since all the prereqs built OK.  I did have to putz with the 
> > gdk-pixbuf build - had a missing symlink - but it worked.
>
> That's running now.

Let us know how it turns out.  If it compiles for you, then maybe my 
failure is something specific to the NetBSD 2 issues???

> I never got any NetBSD 2 packages built because of the kernel memory 
> consumption problem, but I have plenty of 1.6.2 and 3 packages which I 

Did anyone pinpoint the source of this problem?  It seemed to just "go 
away" in v3, eh?


Tim

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