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JAVA Browser?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Ridgway)
Thu Nov 7 13:57:00 1996
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 10:22:48 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug Ridgway <ridgway@routh.UCSD.EDU>
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Cc: "Daniel W. Forsyth" <forsyth@wchat.on.ca>, sen1@math.msu.edu
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> Daniel W. Forsyth writes:
> > Is it just me? Or does Netscape crash too much to be even slightly
> > feasible for running JAVA applications? Is there any other way to run
> > JAVA based code? Thanks.
> What is your hardware, and what version of NS are you running? Also, how
> much memory do you have? I have a P5-133, 96 MB RAM, Matrox 4MB. No
> apparent problems with NS and java.
The new malloc code in libc-5.3.12 gives Netscape Java indigestion.
Either replace the shipped libc with
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/RPMS/libc-gnumalloc-5.3.12-5.i386.rpm
(use --force to install) or just override the malloc code, by wrapping
netscape in a script. A shared library of just the old malloc code
prepared by Steve Dunham <dunham@gdl.msu.edu> from libc 5.4.7 sources is
available at http://lalaland.cl.msu.edu/~dunham/out/gnumalloc.so
It can be used with the standard script
#!/bin/sh
export LD_PRELOAD=/lib/gnumalloc.so
exec /path/to/real/netscape $*
Based on comments in comp.os.linux.dev.system, I suspect at least one
other major commercial program may bring up the same issue, with the same
workaround. Incompatible malloc and free behavior is a huge change.
doug.
dridgway@ucsd.edu
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