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Date:      Mon, 31 Mar 1997 17:09:07 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Chuck Rouzer <rouzer@spyder.net>
Cc:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Netscape Memory Usage and v2.2.1-release 
Message-ID:  <199704010109.RAA13054@root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 31 Mar 1997 11:38:03 EST." <333FE86B.784A@spyder.net> 

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>Ok before receiving this reply, I upgraded the binaries, man pages,
>catman, and profile libraries.  Nothing else.  Every thing seemed to
>work ok and the kernel is now v2.2.1-release.  
>
>	The problem I am having now is Netscape v3.01 will use its usual ton of
>memory, but once the program exits the memory is not freed up.  It just
>stays there and if Netscape is loaded over and over, swap space will
>eventually be full.

   32MB isn't enough swap space for an X workstation. The X server process
alone will consume half of that and system processes will consume another
1/5th. You really need more like 50-100MB of swap for any serious use of
X, especially if you are doing 24bpp.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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