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Date:      Thu, 4 Sep 1997 10:56:56 +0400 (MSD)
From:      Serge Krashakov <sakr@Chg.RU>
To:        khetan@iafrica.com, mike@smith.net.au
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Netscape 4.02b7 and RAM problem
Message-ID:  <199709040656.KAA15639@netserv1.chg.ru>

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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.

I's more interesting that it works without problems on my machine with
144 MB RAM but FreeBSD-2.2.2

Serge






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