Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 19:14:18 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: khetan@iafrica.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape 4.02b7 and RAM problem Message-ID: <199709040214.TAA25535@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199709040104.KAA00512@word.smith.net.au> from "Mike Smith" at Sep 4, 97 10:34:20 am
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Mike Smith wrote: > > > 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. i have 40MB. netscape 4.02b7 runs fine the first time. the second time it hangs, chewing up the cpu, (WCHAN == "-"). if i delete the browser.startup.license_accepted line from the preferences.js, then it runs fine....but i have to delete it each and every time ;( jmb
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