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Date:      Mon, 24 Nov 1997 17:45:11 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Burton Sampley <bsampley@bsampley.vip.best.com>
Cc:        Alan Char <alanchar@got.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 2.2.5 out of memory? 
Message-ID:  <199711250145.RAA11645@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 24 Nov 1997 14:51:46 PST." <Pine.BSF.3.96.971124143948.27344D-100000@bsampley> 

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>I've experience a similar problem with Communicator 4.03b8 D/L'ed directly
>from netscape while using 3.0 -current (I wonder which release they are
>building from?).  I was running TOP at the same time which said I had
>plenty of free memory, ~50MB (It's REALLY hard to believe that running
>only AccelX, top, pppd and Netscape w/ no other users logged in that I
>could consume 128MB of memory and not touch my swap file!).  What bought
>me a few extra pages was to blast both my memory and disk caches. 
>Unfortunately that's only a band-aid which doesn't last very long before
>Netscape starts whining again.  My long term solution was to stop surfing
>when I reached that point (kinda used it as a timer to limit my web
>surfing :-) ). 
>
>(BTW, yes I did rebuild my kernel w/ MAXMEM=131072 and top was able to see
>all my memory)

   You're hitting the process memory resource limit, not running out of system
memory.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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