From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 21 09:23:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA23486 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 09:23:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from alanchar.got.net (alanchat.got.net [207.167.91.64] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA23466 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 09:23:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alanchar@got.net) Received: (from alan@localhost) by alanchar.got.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA00408 for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 09:27:44 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 09:27:44 -0800 (PST) From: Alan Char Message-Id: <199711211727.JAA00408@alanchar.got.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 2.2.5 out of memory? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I just got FreeBSD 2.2.5 from Walnut Creek CD-ROM and upgraded from 2.2.2. When I run Netscape (3.01), it runs out of memory after a very short amount of surfing, much less than 2.2.2. (It pops a dialog saying it's out of memory. It may mean the X server's out of memory.) It seems especially prone to this if the page loads a lot of images from the disk cache. The Netscape binary is the same after the upgrade, naturally, and as far as I can tell all of the X binaries and libraries are the same (dated in May, at least), so I'm not sure where the problem lies. Has memory management changed subtly, or some configuration default? I actually reverted back to 2.2.2 because of this problem, the first time I've installed an old version of the OS in two years of subscribing to FreeBSD! I would appreciate any any ideas you have on the subject. Thanks. --Alan Char, alanchar@got.net