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From: Robert Withrow <bwithrow@baynetworks.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Netscape is out of memory/applets fail...
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 1996 17:49:50 -0400
Organization: Bay Networks, Inc.
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This has been mentioned here before.  (As are many
of the problems I run into... Sigh;-)

You try to reply/mail in netscape and when you
hit Send you get a dialog saying ``Netscape is out of Memory''.

I'm trying to find some common thread to these problems, and
perhaps I have a Clue:

I have seen this with Netscape 2.x and 3.x up to the
most recent beta, and on FreeBSD 2.1 and 2.1.5 and 2.2.  The 
only common thing I have seen is that I am using the same
X server (the Xinside 1.3 server).  Now I know it is rather
far-fetched to think the server could cause a client like
Netscape to think it is out of memory, but...

I just ran into another Netscape anomoly, namely that
when running Netscape on this server *APPLETS CEASE WORKING*.
I determined this by having two systems (FBSD2.1.5) that
are virtually clones of each other, (except for the 
server) and netscape only fails to run applets when using
the Xinside server *and* it doesn't matter if the server is
local or being used over the network.

Sooo... Has anyone else had this problem with this or
different hardware?

-- 
Robert Withrow -- (+1 508 436 8256)
BWithrow@BayNetworks.com