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Date:      Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:33:13 +1200 (NZST)
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
To:        dan@wolf.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Applications under X running out of memory?
Message-ID:  <Pine.SGI.3.96.980706122949.4415B-100000@tui.pinnacle.co.nz>
In-Reply-To: <19980705234819.16702.qmail@wolf.com>

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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.
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