From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu May 29 00:30:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA01048 for bugs-outgoing; Thu, 29 May 1997 00:30:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA01042; Thu, 29 May 1997 00:30:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 00:30:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199705290730.AAA01042@hub.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs Cc: From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Subject: Re: kern/3706: Swap space not recovered w/ XF32 and Netscape Reply-To: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The following reply was made to PR kern/3706; it has been noted by GNATS. From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: sjohn@alamak.com.sg Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/3706: Swap space not recovered w/ XF32 and Netscape Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 08:59:37 +0200 As sjohn@alamak.com.sg wrote: > Run netscape on a game http://www.alamak.com.sg/game/ > reading local images from disk so should not be cached but anyway swap > fills up and netwcape3.01 crashes. I'm not sure if it's incompatable > compile of netscape and freebsd release or a FreeBSD problem. Of course > I can't recompile netscape to test (no source). Neither can we, so why are you reporting it to us? IMHO, BSD Netcrap is still using the dreaded old BSD malloc library (or did BSD/OS implement something new finally?). It is prone to eat up all your VM, and it cannot return VM to the system, ever, except by killing/exiting the process. Netscape fights against Mickeysoft, and their Unix products (in particular the Navigator for BSD/OS) is below the limit of interest for them. They don't even claim support for it. Also, the above URL can _never_ considered to be local. Only file URLs are probably considered to be this. As such, they will probably always be cached. Fix: either configure enough swap space, or don't run Netscape. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)