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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: Netscape 4.02b7 and RAM problem
To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith)
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 19:14:18 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: khetan@iafrica.com, stable@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