From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 27 04:50:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA18040 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 04:50:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (gwdu60.gwdg.de [134.76.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA18034 for ; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 04:50:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de) Received: from localhost (kheuer@localhost) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id NAA28800; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 13:49:34 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 13:49:34 +0100 (CET) From: Konrad Heuer To: Fadi Sodah cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netscape In-Reply-To: <365E8E25.E68DE589@qatar.net.qa> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Fadi Sodah wrote: > i am using netscape as email-client and http-browser, > when i try to send a email msg, i keep getting > "Netscape is out of memory, Try quitting someother > applications or closing some windows." > (...) > my bsd box has: > freebsd 2.2.6 rel > netscape communicator4.04 > swap 73megs > ram 32megs Please take a look at the per-process limits depending on you login shell: sh, bash, ksh, zsh: ulimit -dH ulimit -dS csh, tcsh: limit -h data limit data You'll se the hard and soft limits, and you can raise the soft limit as long as you don't exceed the hard limit (the latter one is set by /etc/login.conf), e.g.: ulimit -dS 65536 or limit data 64m set the data region size to 64 MB. Probably netscape (espc 4.xx) allocates the maximum currently allowed. Konrad Heuer // Gesellschaft fuer wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH // Goettingen (GWDG), Am Fassberg, D-37077 Goettingen, Germany // // kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message