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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!ix.netcom.com!gerg From: gerg@netcom.com (Greg Andrews) Subject: Re: Netscape - X Windows swapping problem Message-ID: <gergE8GILJ.JnM@netcom.com> Organization: Movie marquee: THE FLY GODS MUST BE CRAZY ALIENS References: <3349D0B6.5572@eng2.uconn.edu> <zS45pMD4F99acz9@rb.xs.use.ch> <5ijedj$12j$1@bofh.noc.best.net> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 04:46:31 GMT Lines: 22 Sender: gerg@netcom23.netcom.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38895 rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri) writes: > >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. > I can just see Mark Andreesen lurking nearby, in his Mad Scientist lab coat, wringing his hands. Look, Igor. Today Ron's swap partition, tomorrow THE WORLD! BWAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAA!!! -Greg -- ::::::::::::::::::: Greg Andrews gerg@netcom.com ::::::::::::::::::: Hardware, n.: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::