From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 11 16:59:26 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA00752 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 16:59:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA00566 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 16:59:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA17776; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 11:28:38 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id LAA31251; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 11:28:28 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 11:28:28 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Peng HaiJie Cc: Malartre , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape 4.5 mail problem (keep crashing) Message-ID: <19990112112828.N8886@freebie.lemis.com> References: <36958BBD.5AE4480F@aei.ca> <369637EA.DC4D2D1A@www.transfar.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <369637EA.DC4D2D1A@www.transfar.com>; from Peng HaiJie on Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 04:52:58PM +0000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 8 January 1999 at 16:52:58 +0000, Peng HaiJie wrote: > Malartre wrote: > >> Well, I upgraded to Netscape 4.5 on my FreeBSD 2.2.8 system. >> Netscape himself is really more robust. >> But not the mail application. It's nicer, but it keep crashing. >> (exited on signal 10 (core dumped) >> And can someone explain me why both program are in one program? When the >> mail crash, netscape crash too. Argh. >> And sometime, it simply crash when getting mail. >> Am I the only one? Do there is a know problem? > > Try give more memory to yourself ,I'm sure that it would not crash often. > > in login.conf: > > default:\ > :cputime=infinity:\ > :datasize-cur=40M:\ > ^^^^^^^^ > :stacksize-cur=8M:\ > :memorylocked-cur=10M:\ > :memoryuse-cur=30M:\ > :filesize=infinity:\ > :coredumpsize=infinity:\ > :maxproc-cur=256:\ > :openfiles-cur=256:\ > :priority=0:\ > :requirehome@:\ > :umask=022:\ > :tc=auth-defaults: I don't use (nor recommend) netscape mail, but I had a visitor who did, and he reported the same problems. I checked login.conf, and datasize-cur was set to 64 MB. So if the problem is memory, you'll need even more. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message