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Re: ups and downs with beta kernels...



> However, while using the Net, I found
> some kind of slowdown of transfer. Also, Netscape (stock 4.04) started
> hanging on pretty much every other connection attempt and it took
> about 5-7 minutes or more to recover and display an error message.

Long recover time is because Netscape writes a huge core file, 10 to 30
MB. Check it in your home dir. You can (i) set coredumpsize to 0 (via
limit or ulimit, depending on the shell), or (ii) create a zero size
core file in your home dir, with root ownership. Either solution results
in Netscape dying immediately when you kill it. 

I even wrote a small script to kill Netscape at will:

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#!/bin/sh
if [ -h $HOME/.netscape/lock ] ; then
	kill -9 `ls -l $HOME/.netscape/lock | awk 'BEGIN { FS=":" } { print $NF }'`
	rm -f $HOME/.netscape/lock
else
	echo Netscape lockfile not found!
fi
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Regards,

Andy

Dr Andy Tsouladze
Unix System Administrator
Motorola Communications Israel
mailto:andyt@mcil.comm.mot.com
mailto:andy@spl.co.il (old)
mailto:andy@environment.negev.k12.il
http://www.spl.co.il/~andy