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From: mi@rtfm.ziplink.net (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Netscape - X Windows swapping problem
Date: 15 Apr 1997 16:27:02 GMT
Organization: Aldan at Newton Upper Falls
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Honorable Ron Echeverri
wrote on 10 Apr (in article <5ijedj$12j$1@bofh.noc.best.net>):
>>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.
Weird... I have 4 (busy) Netscape windows open right now, with Netscape
process data (from top):
PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
3579 mi 2 0 19480K 7268K select 21:07 0.38% 0.38% netscape.bin
Total swap (with the 48Mb of RAM) is
mi@rtfm:~/.knews (1210) pstat -s
Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type
/dev/sd0s1b 32768 32696 8 100% Interleaved
/dev/sd1s1b 65536 44944 20528 69% Interleaved
Total 98176 77640 20536 79%
I also have knews, 12 xterms, fvwm95 with lots of icons, Wingz
tkman and minor x-clients (clock, youbin, etc.) running.
Check, if your Netscape's memory cache is set to something large
may be...
-mi
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