Re: Multitasking (not)
On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 11:31 +0100, David J. Ruck wrote: On 20 Oct 2007 Jess Hampshire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have noticed that sometimes Netsurf singletasks. Well thats really going to help developers track down the circumstances. Quite. There are places where NetSurf can get itself to a point where it doesn't call Wimp_Poll for a while. Part of this issue is the lack of any PMT in the WIMP - it's very difficult to get something as complex as NetSurf (where it may be fetching content, decoding content, parsing content, laying out content, responding to GUI events etc) to behave well like without it. It's all a very delicate balance that's almost impossible to get right. When using a slow machine like a Mico, this can tie up the machine for quite a long time, but even on an Iyonix can occasionally be awkward. What resolver module are you using? It shouldn't matter - NetSurf uses its own resolver, not the OS's, although it does read the address of the resolve from the environment when starting. B.
Re: Multitasking (not)
On 21 Oct 2007, David J. Ruck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20 Oct 2007 Jess Hampshire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have noticed that sometimes Netsurf singletasks. Well thats really going to help developers track down the circumstances. It's been discussed before. Single-tasking occurs whenever objects are fetched from a secondary url - two timers appear in the status bar and NetSurf single-tasks until the second timer completes, or times-out. I thought that a bug report had been filed, but I cannot find it for now. [snip] Tony
Re: Multitasking (not)
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tony Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21 Oct 2007, David J. Ruck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20 Oct 2007 Jess Hampshire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have noticed that sometimes Netsurf singletasks. Well thats really going to help developers track down the circumstances. It's been discussed before. Single-tasking occurs whenever objects are fetched from a secondary url - two timers appear in the status bar and NetSurf single-tasks until the second timer completes, or times-out. I thought that a bug report had been filed, but I cannot find it for now. I hadn't pinned down the circumstances, I hadn't thought of it as a bug as such, but if it is, it'll be nice when it's fixed. I was assuming it was just the way things are, (due to CMT in the OS), and wondering if there were any settings that would help, (presumably slowing down the browser a little in the process) -- Jess http://jess.itworkshop-nexus.net
Re: Multitasking (not)
On 21 Oct 2007, Jess Hampshire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tony Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21 Oct 2007, David J. Ruck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20 Oct 2007 Jess Hampshire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have noticed that sometimes Netsurf singletasks. Well thats really going to help developers track down the circumstances. It's been discussed before. Single-tasking occurs whenever objects are fetched from a secondary url - two timers appear in the status bar and NetSurf single-tasks until the second timer completes, or times-out. I thought that a bug report had been filed, but I cannot find it for now. I hadn't pinned down the circumstances, I hadn't thought of it as a bug as such, but if it is, it'll be nice when it's fixed. I've found the bug report now, filed on 1 June 2007 by Harriet Bazley http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=1729711group_id=51719atid=464312 and still assigned to 'nobody', unfortunately. Tony
Multitasking (not)
Hi I have noticed that sometimes Netsurf singletasks. When using a slow machine like a Mico, this can tie up the machine for quite a long time, but even on an Iyonix can occasionally be awkward. Is there any setting to change this? -- Jess http://jess.itworkshop-nexus.net
