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To: Khetan Gajjar <khetan@iafrica.com>
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Subject: Re: Netscape 4.02b7 and RAM problem 
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From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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> I've noticed a rather curious problem. Netscape 4.02b7 worked
> fine when my machine had 32MB of RAM in it. No problems,
> it loaded up fine. I am referring to the FreeBSD-native version
> of the Communicator, of course.
> 
> Today I upgraded to 64MB of RAM, and as soon as I did, Netscape 4.02b7
> wouldn't load unless I removed the license query in preferences.js
> 
> Just thought you'd find this interesting. Just a increase in RAM
> resulted in the problem(s) that everyone's discussing in both
> this forum and hackers (there the program appears to load, but nothing
> appears - it just takes up CPU and RAM).

That's very interesting.  FWIW, this exactly matches my observations; 
on a 16M system it works fine, on a 64M system it *mostly* hangs 
requiring the license-query hack.

mike