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Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 19:09:44 -0500 (CDT)
From: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
To: G Gupta <gupt@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Netscape out of memory - any fixes yet ??
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On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, G Gupta wrote:

# 
# Hi
# 
# I searched the questions archive but cannot find any fix for 
# the problem of Netscape running out of memory under FreeBsd.
# Has anyone solved this problem.
# 
# This is a problem unique to FreeBsd - Netscape works fine with
# all other OSes.
# 
# Also, while trying to view a movie jpg in Netscape under FreeBsd,
# the jpeg just does not come up - ofcourse, the problem is probably
# the same, that Netscape has run out of memory.
# 
# I have a Pentium-233 with 32 MB ram and swap space of 100 MB - so
# and I am only running Netscape  - it still runs out of memory.
# 
# Anybody know of a patch or fix ??
# 

I had a similar problem and tweaking the memory* parameters
in /etc/login.conf fixed it for me.  A quick check to see if
this is related to system limits is to run Netscape as root
and see if the problem goes away.

Steve

PS: Make sure you re-login after changing any limits in
    /etc/login.conf. :)

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# Gupta
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