Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 13:30:17 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Andrew Gordon <arg@arg1.demon.co.uk> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system Message-ID: <199901252130.NAA07766@apollo.backplane.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990125182019.22310B-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk>
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:One variable may be available memory. On my system, with default datasize
:limit of 16M from login.conf, Netscape coredumps very frequently. With
:datasize unlimited, Netscape eats all the available swap (this system is
:64M real 128M swap) and kills the system that way. I currently run
:Netscape with datasize set to 64M, pending a new disc for more swap! In
:this configuration, Netscape either coredumps or starts behavhing oddly
:about once every 3 days, but at least I can just restart it rather than
:needing to reboot after a swap outage.
:
:Colour depth also has an effect - changing from 8-bit to 32-bit on the X
:server seems to have made this worse (as you might expect).
I've been using netscape on a 24bit color system for well over a year
and have never had a serious memory leak problem or X session ( or
machine ) crashing due to it. I don't leave the netscape window open
all the time, though... I tend to exit out of it when I'm not using it.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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