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From: "Alan Char" <achar@Adobe.COM>
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Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 12:47:15 -0800
In-Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
        "Re: FreeBSD 2.2.5 out of memory?" (Nov 24, 12:29pm)
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.5 out of memory?
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My system has 96M RAM and 100M swap.  I thought to check this when
it happened, and there was about 90M swap available.  Note that even
if there is a problem with netscape, the question remains:  What is
the difference between FreeBSD 2.2.2 and 2.2.5 that's causing this
pathological behavior?  I don't have any problems with Netscape 3.01
and FreeBSD 2.2.2, only with 2.2.5.

--Alan (normally alanchar@got.net, but I'm replying from work)

On Nov 24, 12:29pm, Doug White wrote:
> Hm.  Run top while running netscape and keep an eye on it's memory
> footprint and swap usage.  You may have too little swap.  
> 
> Also try upgrading to 3.04; I wonder if 3.01 had a memory leak.

> On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Alan Char wrote:
> > I just got FreeBSD 2.2.5 from Walnut Creek CD-ROM and upgraded from
> > 2.2.2.  When I run Netscape (3.01), it runs out of memory after a
> > very short amount of surfing, much less than 2.2.2.  (It pops a dialog
> > saying it's out of memory.  It may mean the X server's out of memory.)
> > It seems especially prone to this if the page loads a lot of images
> > from the disk cache.