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From: Chooka <dhenshaw@silas.cc.monash.edu.au>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Swap and Memory Problems
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 11:30:09 +1100
Organization: Monash University
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Hi all.

I've been running into some memory and swap problems lately.

My swap partition is 42MB and I've got 16MB of RAM.
When I'm running Netscape with multiple browser windows I consistantly
get Out of Memory errors from netscape.  Furthermore, I get swap_pager
faults too.  

How can I add more swap space to overcome this problem ?
I've tried vnconfig and swapon...but I can't figure it out ?

Is it possible that there is a memory leak somewhere ?

Worse part is sometimes xdm will simply restart itself....

Any advice much appreciated.

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thanx in advance.
David H.
dhenshaw@silas.cc.monash.edu.au
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