[arachne] Re: OpenDoze (web page downloading)

["John Sparks" <johncsparks@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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Joe, It looks like I was premature in reporting that your proposed
LSPPP work-around was ineffective. The fact that stalling can still
occur under some circumstances mislead me (see below)
----- Original Message ----- 

From: "da Silva, Joe" <Joe.daSilva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 12:57 AM
Subject: [arachne] Re: OpenDoze (web page downloading)
<snip>
> the work-around is to change the "Multitasking"
> option in the "Downloading of images" section of the "Preferences &
> Performance" options page to "while searching" (or to "off").

First an admission, I'm a crossword cheat ;-) If I get stuck on a word
I sometimes search a dictionary program for wildcard matches. This
program appears to stretch doze9x memory management.

I noticed today that after running the above, EPPPD surprisingly
suffered from a single hang during a download, so I did a further
series of tests and found there was no significant difference between
EPPPD and modified LSPPP. Notably modified LSPPP sometimes did not
hang.

So I then repeated the tests after a doze95 reboot. 5 tests each of
EPPPD and modified LSPPP resulted in no hangs. 3 tests of unmodified
LSPPP resulted in a total of 14 hangs (each cleared with a mouse
waggle).

>Note that
> this will cause a small (IIRC, about 10%) increase in the download
> time of web pages, but this is far preferable to the "stalling"
delays
> you (and Greg?) are describing.

I didn't do any accurate timing tests but your figure seemed about
right.

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Sparks [SMTP:johncsparks@xxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 9:14 AM
> > To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [arachne] OpenDoze
> >
> > Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
> >
> > Have just checked and, Greg, you may be pleased to hear that I too
can
> > experience abnormal delays.
> >
> > When downloading an html page which should take less than 10 sec,
the
> > bytes read count can freeze several times during the download for
> > periods between a few seconds and at least 40 sec.
> >
> > I can prevent this in two ways.
> >
> > First the funny one: waggle the mouse during the download. Don't
> > laugh, it works every time!
> >
> > Next the practical one, stick with pppd which gives no problem.
With
> > Joe's lsppp I find the mouse is needed. Not really a problem when
you
> > get used to it. Gives you something to do during the download <g>
> >
> > In case the rest of the group are wondering how they have escaped
> > miceitis, I may have brought this on myself by using doze95. In
this
> > case the terminology you folks like is fitting (the OS dozes off)
> >
> > Maybe a third way of avoiding this problem is not to use either
> > windoze or opendoze <g>
> >
> > John



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