Re: wip/firefox unstable on NetBSD/amd64 4.99.55

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:31:00 +0100
Tobias Nygren <tnn%nygren.pp.se@localhost> wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:12:01 -0500 (CDT)
> "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Tobias Nygren wrote:
> > 
> > > How is firefox2 (www/firefox) doing on amd64? I think it used to
> > > be rather crash prone, at least.
> > 
> > I used it. It was reliable enough for me. Maybe firefox only
> > crashed a few times since November (so basically always running)
> > with lots of frequent use.
> > 
> > But the other variable is I changed from NetBSD 4.0_RC to HEAD ten
> > days ago.
> 
> Perhaps it's a concurrency problem in firefox. I'm guessing you have a
> multicore cpu? Could you try "cpuctl offline 1" and see if it gets any
> better?
> 
I have a multicore CPU, and firefox2 is running very stably on
amd64-current.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb