Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 17:45:11 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Burton Sampley <bsampley@bsampley.vip.best.com> Cc: Alan Char <alanchar@got.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.5 out of memory? Message-ID: <199711250145.RAA11645@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 24 Nov 1997 14:51:46 PST." <Pine.BSF.3.96.971124143948.27344D-100000@bsampley>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
>I've experience a similar problem with Communicator 4.03b8 D/L'ed directly >from netscape while using 3.0 -current (I wonder which release they are >building from?). I was running TOP at the same time which said I had >plenty of free memory, ~50MB (It's REALLY hard to believe that running >only AccelX, top, pppd and Netscape w/ no other users logged in that I >could consume 128MB of memory and not touch my swap file!). What bought >me a few extra pages was to blast both my memory and disk caches. >Unfortunately that's only a band-aid which doesn't last very long before >Netscape starts whining again. My long term solution was to stop surfing >when I reached that point (kinda used it as a timer to limit my web >surfing :-) ). > >(BTW, yes I did rebuild my kernel w/ MAXMEM=131072 and top was able to see >all my memory) You're hitting the process memory resource limit, not running out of system memory. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199711250145.RAA11645>