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Date:      Tue, 6 Oct 1998 00:06:07 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams)
Cc:        tlambert@primenet.com, mike@smith.net.au, eivind@yes.no, alk@pobox.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: something is leaking
Message-ID:  <199810060006.RAA26324@usr05.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <199810050454.WAA01596@mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Oct 4, 98 10:54:32 pm

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> > I can guarantee Netscape won't grow out of all proportion if you run
> > it on a machine other than the machine where the display is running,
> > since I and a number of collegues have been doing it this way for a
> > year or more without the crashes that everyone complains about.
> 
> Really?  Guarantee?  What kind of reward do I get if your guarantee
> fails?

You get to crash your X server, as before.  Wheeeee!


> (The box *running* Netscape (3.04, the latest) is running FreeBSD 2.1.7,
> and the box *displaying* it is running 2.2-stable, and netscape gets
> *way* out of control all the time, and must be restarted on a weekly
> basis.

What in particular is getting out of control?  BTW, 3.04 is *not*
"the latest"...


> The netscape in question runs my wife's email and she also does the
> occasional bit of 'surfing', but is very lightly used.
> 
> What do I win? :)

The right to upgrade, and the right to seperate NetScape memory
leaks from shared NetScape/server memory leaks?


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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