[Info-vax] VMS V8.3 (et al.) v. Netscape Navigator Gold Version 3.03

[Steven Schweda]

Hein RMS van den Heuvel wrote:

> It's pretty funny!

   You're easily entertained.  (As am I.)

> If you are NOT moving the mouse and a page load is frozen, then what
> is the netscape process state? Spinning CPU in COM? LEF?

   SHOW SYSTEM /PROC = name says LEF.    And the I/O count is
stuck, but the Pri does get boosted to 6.  And the
keyboard/mouse activity needs to have the focus on the
Netscape window, by the way.

> If I had to make a WAG I'd go with a Pthreads issue, just because I
> read a little about that yesterday :-). And I would try to peak poke
> and prod the netscape image with $ ANALYZE/IMAGE/INTER and $ SET IMAGE/
> FLAG=[NO]UPCALLS

   I'm about to be away from the VMS system for a while, and
don't have time now for proper fooling around, but if it's
still a mystery in a couple of weeks, I'll give that a try.

George Cook wrote:

> [...] Mosaic [...]

> Of course the above assumes you don't want to use the Mozilla
> or Seamonkey releases for VMS.

   I do when I need JavaScript (ITRC forums, a few Ebay
things, and so on), but leaving a couple of SWBs running for a
week or two means that my disk cache size shrinks to
near-zero.  (It's down under 50MB now, for example, and the
system's been up for about five days.  That's with the full
2GB in an XP1000.)

   As I said, Mosaic is on my list of possible remedies.