From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 4 00:37:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA12827 for stable-outgoing; Thu, 4 Sep 1997 00:37:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from netserv1.chg.ru (netserv1.chg.ru [193.233.46.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA12709 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 1997 00:35:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from sakr@localhost) by netserv1.chg.ru (8.8.5/8.8.3) id KAA15639; Thu, 4 Sep 1997 10:56:56 +0400 (MSD) Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 10:56:56 +0400 (MSD) From: Serge Krashakov Message-Id: <199709040656.KAA15639@netserv1.chg.ru> To: khetan@iafrica.com, mike@smith.net.au Subject: Re: Netscape 4.02b7 and RAM problem Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> 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