Subject: Re: Newlock2 - what about threading bugs?
To: Jochen Kunz <jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
From: Michael Lorenz <macallan@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 02/23/2007 13:15:29
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Hello,

On Feb 23, 2007, at 11:25, Jochen Kunz wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 15:53:48 +0100
> Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de> wrote:
>
>> We can not tell really.
> The reason to reinstall my U60 today was to test if firefox and
> konqueror still crash in some situations. AFAIK firefox crashed due to
> threading bugs and konqueror due to swap problems. Konqueror was usable
> if you avoided heavy swaping. Firefox was unusable because it crashed
> soon after startup. Last time I tried this was in late autumn.

I didn't try sparc64 yet but on macppc firefox is now rock stable ( by 
forefox standards at least ) - used to always crash in early startup 
with a messed up stack. So there's hope I guess.

have fun
Michael
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