From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 31 18:48:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA29015 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 31 Aug 1997 18:48:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cockatoo.aus.org (isis@cockatoo.aus.org [199.166.246.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA29002 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 1997 18:48:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from isis@localhost) by cockatoo.aus.org (8.8.6/8.8.7) id VAA21576; Sun, 31 Aug 1997 21:47:47 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19970831222734.00424@grendel.IAEhv.nl> Date: Sun, 31 Aug 1997 21:45:42 -0400 (EDT) Organization: Cockatoo Demolition Consortium From: Queen Rusty To: Peter Korsten Subject: Re: Netscape Communicator 4.02b7 Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 31-Aug-97 Peter Korsten squawked: >Kenny Hanson shared with us: >> >> [original question was whether Netscape 4.02b7 was thinned out] >> >> I'm afraid not. It comes with just about everything that installs >> with NT or 95. The .tar.gz file is 7,132,310 bytes in size (yikes!). > >Something very scary: Netscape 4.02 works pretty fine on my 16 Mb >machine with Windows 95, but is hardly useable due to the large >memory consumation with FreeBSD 2.2.2 and Xfree86. > >'Top' shows that Netscape takes some 13 Mb Mb memory (YIKES!). > >- Peter I was thrilled to see a freebsd netscape as well, but have gone back to the older unknown-bsd version ( I believe BSDi). In some cases in top the numbers were 18M/6M+ , and it was noticeably slower than the older version. I wish there was a 3.0x freebsd-netscape Luke ----- Queen Rusty and her subjects: Ruckus and Zorro , Lil Guy and Joey , Cassidy , Jen and Luke , and 4 cats... http://kawaii.aus.org/~hendrix