Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 18:34:02 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Barney Wolff <barney@pit.databus.com> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: could netscape hose my dialup modem traffic? Message-ID: <20001130183401.A5295@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20001130180137.A26838@pit.databus.com>; from barney@pit.databus.com on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 06:01:37PM -0500 References: <200011302249.eAUMnR702098@thought.org> <20001130180137.A26838@pit.databus.com>
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On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 06:01:37PM -0500, Barney Wolff wrote: > I have seen some weird paging behavior with netscape (4.76) > on 4.2 (beta, then stable as of 11/29). Sometimes netscape and X > get into a fight over memory, with both seeming to be largely non-resident > although there is free memory. I can usually provoke this by opening > an extra window in jsp (for example by clicking on the "vote" box on > www.cnn.com). Quitting netscape makes the symptom go away, in that > I can restart netscape without paging. This is on an smp P6/200 > with 64 MB. I'm not running ppp. > > When you get into the syndrome, run top and see if you're doing a lot > to swap with netscape largely non-resident. > Thanks for the insight. Next time I'll check top iff that's an option; it wasn't today. Really bizarre side effect of <something>, wow... . gary -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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