Re: Degraded multi-tasking?

2008-11-05 Thread Richard Porter
On 5 Nov 2008 dave higton wrote: Quoting Harriet Bazley [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 4 Nov 2008 as I do recall, Dave Higton wrote: To clarify, the single-tasking has only ever occurred while NS was (in general terms) fetching a page, ... Is this distinct from the ancient ... bug in which

Re: Degraded multi-tasking?

2008-11-05 Thread Richard Porter
On 5 Nov 2008 druck lit the blue touch paper: Richard Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can replicate this problem to order. I open a window on NetSurf which loads my local home page, http://localhost/ (internet.websites.index/html), from WebJames. You are attempting to use a cooperatively

Re: Degraded multi-tasking?

2008-11-05 Thread Rob Kendrick
On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:45:08 GMT Richard Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are attempting to use a cooperatively multitasked operating system to both serve and display content, expect such problems even if the browser is working acceptibly with external servers. The problem seems to be

Re: Degraded multi-tasking?

2008-11-05 Thread dave higton
Quoting David J. Ruck [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Richard Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can replicate this problem to order. I open a window on NetSurf which loads my local home page, http://localhost/ (internet.websites.index/html), from WebJames. You are attempting to use a cooperatively

Re: Degraded multi-tasking?

2008-11-05 Thread Rob Kendrick
On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:58:10 + dave higton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting David J. Ruck [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Richard Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can replicate this problem to order. I open a window on NetSurf which loads my local home page, http://localhost/

Re: Degraded multi-tasking?

2008-11-05 Thread Rob Kendrick
On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:29:52 GMT Richard Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: His point is that in a PMT system, such deadlocks cannot occur, but in a CMT system, enormous care must be taken to stop them being commonplace. As I recall, and it's a long time since I worked on a CMT kernel,

Re: Degraded multi-tasking?

2008-11-05 Thread Tony Moore
On 5 Nov 2008, John-Mark Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Rob Kendrick wrote: NetSurf working with WebJames on the same machine working at all is already a miracle. We spent many hours trying to discover the cause of the deadlock, but to no avail. I seem to recall we

Re: Degraded multi-tasking?

2008-11-04 Thread dave higton
Quoting Paul Vigay [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've not noticed any degradation in the multi-tasking on my Iyonix here, and NetSurf is pretty much constantly loaded. You could try running Martin Avison's !TaskUsage and seeing what that displays. To clarify, the single-tasking has only ever occurred

Re: Degraded multi-tasking?

2008-11-04 Thread Kevin Wells
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tony Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4 Nov 2008, John-Mark Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 4 Nov 2008, Rob Kendrick wrote: On Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:46:02 GMT Dave Higton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the impression that recent versions of

Re: Degraded multi-tasking?

2008-11-04 Thread Richard Porter
On 4 Nov 2008 Kevin Wells wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tony Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4 Nov 2008, John-Mark Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 4 Nov 2008, Rob Kendrick wrote: On Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:46:02 GMT Dave Higton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the

Re: Degraded multi-tasking?

2008-11-04 Thread Harriet Bazley
On 4 Nov 2008 as I do recall, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Paul Vigay [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've not noticed any degradation in the multi-tasking on my Iyonix here, and NetSurf is pretty much constantly loaded. You could try running Martin Avison's !TaskUsage and seeing

Re: Degraded multi-tasking?

2008-11-04 Thread dave higton
Quoting Harriet Bazley [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 4 Nov 2008 as I do recall, Dave Higton wrote: To clarify, the single-tasking has only ever occurred while NS was (in general terms) fetching a page, never while it was merely quiescent on the icon bar. Is this distinct from the ancient (as

Degraded multi-tasking?

2008-11-03 Thread Dave Higton
I have the impression that recent versions of NetSurf have poorer multi-tasking while a page is being loaded. I just observed !Alarm freezing for 16 seconds, during which nothing but the mouse cursor moved, of course. This is more of a problem to me as Pipex's internet service seems to get worse

Re: Degraded multi-tasking?

2008-11-03 Thread Rob Kendrick
On Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:46:02 GMT Dave Higton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the impression that recent versions of NetSurf have poorer multi-tasking while a page is being loaded. I just observed !Alarm freezing for 16 seconds, during which nothing but the mouse cursor moved, of course. How