Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 01:31:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Andrew Gordon <arg@arg1.demon.co.uk> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990126012634.23694A-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199901252130.NAA07766@apollo.backplane.com>
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On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :One variable may be available memory. On my system, with default datasize > :limit of 16M from login.conf, Netscape coredumps very frequently. With > > I've been using netscape on a 24bit color system for well over a year > and have never had a serious memory leak problem or X session ( or > machine ) crashing due to it. I don't leave the netscape window open > all the time, though... I tend to exit out of it when I'm not using it. > > -Matt > Matthew Dillon > <dillon@backplane.com> Just to clarify: 1) I'm not sure I would necesarily accuse Netscape of having a leak: what with caching pages in RAM and the allocation policy of whatever malloc they use, maybe it really needs this much and would stabilise at some size of 100M+ - I just don't have the swap space to find out. 2) I have never seen a system crash as such. However, having the X server killed due to out-of-swap leaves the console fouled up and so could easily be mis-described as a crash. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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