WebPositive keeps hanging

[nephele]

Recently WebPositive and other applications keep hanging very frequently, this seems like a new regression to me.

hrev55752

Debug report attached of a webpositve window that hung with only one tab open, discuss. after trying to log in.

[bruno]

Do you use Haiku with an USB-Stick?

[AlienSoldier]

I noticed something similar from a few weeks ago. I only feel this with the browsers otter and webpositive (not saw this with netsurf).

The hang in webpositive are not like the "classic" webpositive hang. They happen on page i did not have trouble with before and they can resume from the hang. If i use the mouse wheel to scroll the page when frozen, it keep the command and eventually, like 30-40 sec after, the page scroll and everything seem back to normal. In otter when that happen it sometime come back, sometime not and the whole QT GUI inside of the native Haiku window stay a solid grey. Both those browser issue started around the same time so i wonder if there could be an underlying network stack problem not used by Vision or other un-impacted net apps. Another particularity is that there is an abnormal delay for opening a batch of tab at the same time (some can even be ignored).

*i don't use the computer from a USB key.

[nephele]

Otter is unrelated, it uses a completely different networking and drawing code.

When I mean webpositive hangs I do mean it hangs completely, not the tab.

[pulkomandy]

In webpositive, the browser will freeze for some time when loading a media element (audio or video) due to the badly written code to handle medias. This has been the case for at least two years. The problem comes and goes only because websites keep changing.

[tqh]

Probably hrev55737 and how cpu_pause behaves in different environments/cpus if it started around that hrev.