Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 12:29:54 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Alan Char <alanchar@got.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.5 out of memory? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971124122528.12844W-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199711211727.JAA00408@alanchar.got.net>
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On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Alan Char wrote: > 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. Hm. Run top while running netscape and keep an eye on it's memory footprint and swap usage. You may have too little swap. Also try upgrading to 3.04; I wonder if 3.01 had a memory leak. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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