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From: rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Netscape - X Windows swapping problem
Date: 10 Apr 1997 12:18:11 -0700
Organization: fidgety systems administrators gmbh
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In article <zS45pMD4F99acz9@rb.xs.use.ch>,
Reto Burkhalter <borki@rb.xs.use.ch> wrote:
>>> Brian Bissell
>>> 07.04.1997
>> I've got the same problem. I'm running FreeBSD 2.1.5
>> on a 486DX-33 with 20MB Ram, 27MB swap, with 300MB of free (/usr)
>> disk space. Typically, I can start X and Netscape (3.01), and
>> have about 3% swap utilization. But this rapidly grows, and
>> it will finally page my machine to death (100% utilization),
>> until finally either the pager kills Netscape, my X server,
>> or the whole thing halts...
>I had no problems using Netscape 3.01 under either FreeBSD 2.1.5
>or 2.2.1.
>You might add some swap space.. about 60 MB would be good for
>your configuration..
I have just over 117MB of swap, and it still happens... After a few
days, depending on what else i run, Netscape 3.01 will slowly consume
my swap until there's nothing left. I have to exit it to recover
about 60MB of swap, and then restart it. I guess the Netscape
programmers haven't heard about memory leaks.
rone
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