Date: Thu, 04 Sep 1997 10:34:20 +0930 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Khetan Gajjar <khetan@iafrica.com> Cc: stable@Freebsd.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape 4.02b7 and RAM problem Message-ID: <199709040104.KAA00512@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 03 Sep 1997 22:56:02 %2B0200." <Pine.BSF.3.96.970903225054.3256A-100000@chain>
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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. mike
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