From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 25 17:32:47 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA21134 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 17:32:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from arg1.demon.co.uk (arg1.demon.co.uk [194.222.34.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA21124 for ; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 17:32:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from arg@arg1.demon.co.uk) Received: from localhost (arg@localhost) by arg1.demon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA23727; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 01:31:40 GMT (envelope-from arg@arg1.demon.co.uk) Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 01:31:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Andrew Gordon X-Sender: arg@server.arg.sj.co.uk To: Matthew Dillon cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system In-Reply-To: <199901252130.NAA07766@apollo.backplane.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :One variable may be available memory. On my system, with default datasize > :limit of 16M from login.conf, Netscape coredumps very frequently. With > > 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 > Just to clarify: 1) I'm not sure I would necesarily accuse Netscape of having a leak: what with caching pages in RAM and the allocation policy of whatever malloc they use, maybe it really needs this much and would stabilise at some size of 100M+ - I just don't have the swap space to find out. 2) I have never seen a system crash as such. However, having the X server killed due to out-of-swap leaves the console fouled up and so could easily be mis-described as a crash. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message