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From: Anthony Hill <ahill@interconnect.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Netscape Memory Usage and v2.2.1-release 
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On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, David Greenman wrote:

> >Ok before receiving this reply, I upgraded the binaries, man pages,
> >catman, and profile libraries.  Nothing else.  Every thing seemed to
> >work ok and the kernel is now v2.2.1-release.  
> >
> >	The problem I am having now is Netscape v3.01 will use its usual ton of
> >memory, but once the program exits the memory is not freed up.  It just
> >stays there and if Netscape is loaded over and over, swap space will
> >eventually be full.
> 
>    32MB isn't enough swap space for an X workstation. The X server process

Does FBSD2.2.1/Xfree still have the problem with xapp.s not freeing up 
memory ? (Every release I hope I have seen the last of this.)