Subject: Re: Newlock2 - what about threading bugs?
To: Raymond Meyer <raymond.meyer@rambler.ru>
From: Michael Lorenz <macallan@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 02/23/2007 13:18:34
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Hello,

On Feb 23, 2007, at 11:44, Raymond Meyer wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:25:40 +0100
> Jochen Kunz <jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de> 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.
>
> Are you saying that Firefox and Konqueror crashed in late autumn or 
> today when
> you installed NetBSD-current on your U60??

Konqueror has been stable enough to be useful for quite some time - 
just avoid having it or part of it swapped out as pretty much all 
threaded apps would likely crash when getting swapped back in. Firefox 
on the other hand was always very crash prone, swapping or not.

have fun
Michael
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