Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 23:49:32 +0000 From: Peter de Koning <p.d.de.koning@freeler.nl> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD handbook causes Linux-netscape to crash Message-ID: <20020319234932.62ad2283.p.d.de.koning@freeler.nl>
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Dear Sir/Madam I want to tell you that the html version of your FreeBSD handbook (from book.html.tar.gz) could cause Linux using netscape to crash. On my system, a P 200 MMX with 32 meg RAM and 43 meg RAMdisk, opening your html handbook filled the entire RAM and RAMdisk, wich caused my system to crash. After a reboot, I found out what the problem was. usually there is about 15 meg free RAM and 42 meg free on the RAMdisk when netscape and the windowmanager are loaded. After loading your handbook within netscape, both RAM and RAMdisk became in no time full, wich freezed/crashed the OS. (I watched this process using gkrellm) This really surprised me, I never ran out of RAM, but I never use such huge html docs. You might warn people that are about to read/download the HTML-handbook, that they need a lot of free RAM, when using netscape 4.75 (and maybe other versions and/or Mozilla) on Linux (and maybe also FreeBSD and solaris while the problem is netscape, and not Linux itself). Although Linux (and FreeBSD) both have a architecture that has a limitation of available RAM, due to a fixed size of the swapfile/RAMdisk, in contradiction to M$ Windows wich has a dynamic swapfile. By the way: using Opera 6 on the same machine did not cause any problems. Yours Sincerely, Peter de Koning, Netherlands. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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