On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 05:41:39PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Marco Peereboom wrote: > > > My current best theory is that the brand new link prefetch stuff (ugh!) > > is easting gobs of file descriptors while another site is loading. So > > when webkit tries to establish a connection to get like favicon or css > > it runs out and renders the pages sans css or favicon (missing pictures > > etc etc). The link prefetch can't be disabled since it doesn't have a > > knob. I am trying to reason with the webkit people (again) that > > anything prefetch is not really that great for everybody. > > Well, if there a way we could introduce such a knob in the port then?
Last time I suggested that I got my butt handed to me. > > > In xxxterm the file descriptor starvation has other fun side effects > > because it opens and closes files left and right for things like state, > > bookmarks, etc. > > > > The easiest way to see this in action is having like 10 tabs created at > > startup. This usually results in pages not being rendered correctly and > > xxxterm complaining it can't open files. > > > > There is some evidence too that on top of this there is also a fd leak > > somewhere as well. > > > > > > -- > Antoine >
