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Subject: Re: Netscape is out of memory
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 19:05:04 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, tam@cd.iidpwr.com
In-Reply-To: <199607020705.JAA10604@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jul 2, 96 09:05:01 am
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As J Wunsch wrote...
> 
> As Tony Tam wrote:
> 
> >      The error message is "Netscape is out of memory. Try quitting some
> > other applications or closing some windows." I got this error message as
> 
> What about your swap usage?  I assume you've got too few swap for
> running a memory-pig like Netcrap.

Hmm, not necessarily. I've seen it happen once on my own system
(32 Mbyte RAM, 64 Mb swap, one user and plenty of swap free.)
Netscape itself is weird..

Wilko
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