From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 23 08:57:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA13342 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 23 Mar 1997 08:57:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de [141.31.166.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA13336 for ; Sun, 23 Mar 1997 08:57:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (from helbig@localhost) by helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA00199; Sun, 23 Mar 1997 17:56:43 +0100 (MET) From: Wolfgang Helbig Message-Id: <199703231656.RAA00199@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> Subject: Re: Netscape mail composer "out of memory" In-Reply-To: from Nadav Eiron at "Mar 23, 97 06:21:20 pm" To: nadav@barcode.co.il (Nadav Eiron) Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 17:56:43 +0100 (MET) Cc: questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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)