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Date:      Thu, 12 Feb 1998 01:56:48 -0500
From:      "Alfred Perlstein" <perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu>
To:        <freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Nanbor Wang" <nanbor@cs.wustl.edu>
Subject:   Re: Netscape strangeness
Message-ID:  <001001bd3783$664b5b60$0600a8c0@win95.local.sunyit.edu>

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obvious, but not that obvious... you need to look at login.class and make
yourself an entry with enough ram available...
then man passwd to figure out how to add yourself to the class

-Alfred


-----Original Message-----
From: Nanbor Wang <nanbor@cs.wustl.edu>
To: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Wednesday, February 11, 1998 9:40 PM
Subject: Netscape strangeness


>Hi,
>
>I recently installed FreeBSD on a Micron dual-Ppro box.  It runs great
>most of the time.  Sometimes, if the system load is too big, it hangs
>dead.  Oh well, it only happened once -- when I did a make -j 10.
>However, which really annoys me is that, it never seems to use the
>swap space.  I've allocated 250 MB of swap space on this machine but I
>still get "not enough memory" from netscape all the time.  Using
>either top or xsysinfo show that the swap is still hanging freely when
>this occurs.
>
>I've seen the swap space got used once when I was compiling a huge
>program.  What could be the problem?  Am I missing something very
>obvious?  Please let me know if more info is needed (mptable or dmesg
>perhaps?)
>
>Thanks,
>
>Nanbor
>
>
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