From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 13 16:51:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA01043 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 16:22:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA06680 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 15:27:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA24260; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 11:50:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 11:50:12 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Jan Koum cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape out of memory? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Jan Koum wrote: > On one of the several FreeBSD machines I use I get "Netscape out > of memory" pop up window from Netscape after certain period of usage. The > OS is 2.2.x and Netscape is 4.x (I tried different once). I bumped up disk > cache and memory size in netscape's user preference. No luck. I made sure > to do "unlimit" in my csh even. No luck. I even added myself to different > login classes, such as 'root' and 'xuser'. Now, the interesting thing is > that it happeneds when I run xdm, while at home, where I just run X > without xdm I don't have any trouble. Any ideas and clues will be > appreciated. Thanks, Make sure you're using the login class you're thinking. Also Netscape leaks memory allover the place. If you've been running it for a while and looking at lots of images you're bound to start running out of resources. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major