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Date:      Mon, 24 Nov 1997 22:21:35 -0600 (CST)
From:      vagner@spdc.ti.com (George Vagner)
To:        dg@root.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 2.2.5 out of memory?
Message-ID:  <9711250421.AA09328@epcot.spdc.ti.com.spdc.ti.com>
In-Reply-To: <199711250145.RAA11645@implode.root.com> from "David Greenman" at Nov 24, 97 05:45:11 pm

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so how do we fix it?  (process memory problem)

I got the same problem.


> 
> >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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