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From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@obiwan.aceonline.com.au>
To: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De>
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Subject: Re: Netscape mail composer "out of memory"
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Well I'm running Netscape 4.0b2 on a 2.2-GAMMA machine, even though I tell
it to limit its memory cache to 3.5mb ..

adrian     503  0.8  9.3 64520 2844  ??  S     4:46PM   25:57.00
/usr/local/bin/netscape

It can bring my machine down if I forget to close it for a day or so.

Its happened in all bsd versions of netscape I've run, when running LInux
netscape under linux I've never had the problem (haven't tried running
Linux netscape under Fbsd though).

cya.



On Sun, 23 Mar 1997, Wolfgang Helbig wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> > I have a weird problem with Netscape (both 3.0 and 3.01 gold). When 
> > attempting to send a mail message (right after hitting the "Send" button) 
> > Netscape gives the error: "Netscape is out of memory. Try quitting some 
> > applications...". I have this on two 2.1.6R machines, both have enough 
> > memory (one of them has 48MB real mem + 100MB swapfile).
> > 
> > Does anybody know what went wrong here?
> 
> Hopefully Netscape :-)       
> 
> You might want to check memory-usage. The command 
> 
> 	ps -aux | more
> 
> gives you the usage of real memory (under the heading rss) and virtual
> storage (vsz) for each process on the system. Further, the command
> 
> 	pstat -s
> 
> tells you about used and available swap space.
> 
> The results may confirm a memory leakage, either in userland or in the
> kernel vm-system, so please report your findings.
> 
> Shalom
> Wolfgang (seev)
> 
>