You know I run [EMAIL PROTECTED] clients on some machines and we had a similar problem. What we found was that some very specific sse optimizations would cause issues on only some athlons. Mostly the thourobred b's and bartons. I'm not sure the reason you are seeing this and it only occurred when pushing the cpu's very hard.
Ah .. the [EMAIL PROTECTED] that was (or still is).
I also know since i have started rebuilding the mandrake rpm's with some extreme optimizations that I do not see this behavior at all on my mandrake boxen. However I have had issues with the mandrake builds of mozilla for about 2 years now they just randomly lock up, completely crash, or the one that really bugs me is that after a while of use it gets so that you can not select text in the address bar. You have to shut it down to fix this. Because of this I almost never use the mandrake rpm's for mozilla.
I did wonder about athlons and the degree of optimization. I recall the same scenario at MDK 9.1 release time. Buchan's "early-bird" Mozilla 1.3 migrated to cooker AFAIR mainly with -O3 moved back to -O2 and what felt like a drop in stability. The abrupt closure I see, the lock-up rather rarely and the loss of text selection not at all.
My regular usage is to have 1 or 2 mozilla windows open with maybe 10 or 15 tabs per window. This I have running for possibly weeks. With the mandrake builds I get maybe 3 or 4 days max.
That sounds like you're dispensing with xft and/or using Mozilla's own binaries. Fortunately (like OO.o) installation is very easy :-).
David
