From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 25 13:30:31 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA13927 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 13:30:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA13916 for ; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 13:30:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) id NAA07766; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 13:30:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 13:30:17 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199901252130.NAA07766@apollo.backplane.com> To: Andrew Gordon Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system References: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message