From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 5 17:06:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA08511 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 17:06:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA08403 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 17:06:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA28594; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 17:06:30 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd028520; Mon Oct 5 17:06:23 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA26324; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 17:06:08 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199810060006.RAA26324@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: something is leaking To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 00:06:07 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, mike@smith.net.au, eivind@yes.no, alk@pobox.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199810050454.WAA01596@mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Oct 4, 98 10:54:32 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I can guarantee Netscape won't grow out of all proportion if you run > > it on a machine other than the machine where the display is running, > > since I and a number of collegues have been doing it this way for a > > year or more without the crashes that everyone complains about. > > Really? Guarantee? What kind of reward do I get if your guarantee > fails? You get to crash your X server, as before. Wheeeee! > (The box *running* Netscape (3.04, the latest) is running FreeBSD 2.1.7, > and the box *displaying* it is running 2.2-stable, and netscape gets > *way* out of control all the time, and must be restarted on a weekly > basis. What in particular is getting out of control? BTW, 3.04 is *not* "the latest"... > The netscape in question runs my wife's email and she also does the > occasional bit of 'surfing', but is very lightly used. > > What do I win? :) The right to upgrade, and the right to seperate NetScape memory leaks from shared NetScape/server memory leaks? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message