From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 24 17:43:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA24433 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 17:43:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from implode.root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA24416 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 17:43:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA11645; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 17:45:11 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199711250145.RAA11645@implode.root.com> To: Burton Sampley cc: Alan Char , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.5 out of memory? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 24 Nov 1997 14:51:46 PST." From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 17:45:11 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >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