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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: 15 Apr 1997 14:58:13 -0700
Organization: fidgety systems administrators gmbh
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In article <861121469.606700@aldan>,
Mikhail Teterin <mi@ALDAN.ziplink.net> wrote:
>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
I only have 32MB of RAM; who knows how much difference that makes...
>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%
How long has it been running?
>I also have knews, 12 xterms, fvwm95 with lots of icons, Wingz
>tkman and minor x-clients (clock, youbin, etc.) running.
I have 13 xterms, emacs, and fvwm, so it's very similar to your
setup. I'm also running apache and inn (small feed).
>Check, if your Netscape's memory cache is set to something large
>may be...
512K memory cache, 4M disk cache. Nothing unusual.
rone
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