Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 14:51:46 -0800 (PST) From: Burton Sampley <bsampley@bsampley.vip.best.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Alan Char <alanchar@got.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.5 out of memory? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971124143948.27344D-100000@bsampley> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971124122528.12844W-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I've experience a similar problem with Communicator 4.03b8 D/L'ed directly from netscape while using 3.0 -current (I wonder which release they are building from?). I was running TOP at the same time which said I had plenty of free memory, ~50MB (It's REALLY hard to believe that running only AccelX, top, pppd and Netscape w/ no other users logged in that I could consume 128MB of memory and not touch my swap file!). What bought me a few extra pages was to blast both my memory and disk caches. Unfortunately that's only a band-aid which doesn't last very long before Netscape starts whining again. My long term solution was to stop surfing when I reached that point (kinda used it as a timer to limit my web surfing :-) ). (BTW, yes I did rebuild my kernel w/ MAXMEM=131072 and top was able to see all my memory) - - burton - On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Doug White wrote: > 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 > > > - --------------- Burton Sampley bsampley@best.com or bsampley@haywire.csuhayward.edu PGP key available at http://www.best.com/~bsampley/pgp.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNHoFCnt2O8KJtMdBAQHjiAP+KncIcI+gMj/u8OqxJUP6mw1uXn6sUF2w CKX5Sj6YwDuuauwzicDU7h+Aszte4rM2/ZTrq0DrYQVq6xg86zJ88esXFLspTWTi Cq155/xMNN3WDNtp+PLCMJ8Cag6r+W2wgwGIW5kzfq9VfkQB2z61h/8rkPqBC+SA 3GspsjVg70I= =5cN6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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