From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 5 17:36:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA26419 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 17:36:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (pinsoft.internet.co.nz [202.37.141.181] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA26370 for ; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 17:36:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA27867; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:33:13 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:33:13 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen Reply-To: Jonathan Chen To: dan@wolf.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Applications under X running out of memory? In-Reply-To: <19980705234819.16702.qmail@wolf.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 5 Jul 1998 dan@wolf.com wrote: > I'm running FreeBSD-2.2.6 on a P150 with 64 MB RAM. My hard > drive is set up with a 256 MB swap partition and a couple > of GB of file system space. I'm running WindowMaker for > my window manager. When I run Netscape Navigitor 3 I > am able to receive mail just fine, but when I try to send > mail I get an error message telling me "Netscape is out > of memory. Try quiting some other applications or closing > some windows". When this happens I usually have one of two > xterms open with Netscape. Just for chuckles I've also tried > it without any xterms open - nothing running but Netscape and > the window manager. You need to change /etc/login.conf. Easiest thing to do would be to change "default" so that memory restrictions are removed. Check out login.conf(5) for more details. -- Jonathan Chen e-mail : jonc@pinnacle.co.nz Pinnacle Software Ltd Voice : +64.9.415.4460 Auckland, New Zealand Fax : +64.9.415.4250 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message