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Date:      Tue, 12 Jan 1999 11:28:28 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Peng HaiJie <phj@www.transfar.com>
Cc:        Malartre <malartre@aei.ca>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Netscape 4.5 mail problem (keep crashing)
Message-ID:  <19990112112828.N8886@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <369637EA.DC4D2D1A@www.transfar.com>; from Peng HaiJie on Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 04:52:58PM %2B0000
References:  <36958BBD.5AE4480F@aei.ca> <369637EA.DC4D2D1A@www.transfar.com>

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On Friday,  8 January 1999 at 16:52:58 +0000, Peng HaiJie wrote:
> Malartre wrote:
>
>> Well, I upgraded to Netscape 4.5 on my FreeBSD 2.2.8 system.
>> Netscape himself is really more robust.
>> But not the mail application. It's nicer, but it keep crashing.
>> (exited on signal 10 (core dumped)
>> And can someone explain me why both program are in one program? When the
>> mail crash, netscape crash too. Argh.
>> And sometime, it simply crash when getting mail.
>> Am I the only one? Do there is a know problem?
>
> Try give more memory to yourself ,I'm sure that it would not crash often.
>
> in login.conf:
>
> default:\
> :cputime=infinity:\
> :datasize-cur=40M:\
>            ^^^^^^^^
> :stacksize-cur=8M:\
> :memorylocked-cur=10M:\
> :memoryuse-cur=30M:\
> :filesize=infinity:\
> :coredumpsize=infinity:\
> :maxproc-cur=256:\
> :openfiles-cur=256:\
> :priority=0:\
> :requirehome@:\
> :umask=022:\
> :tc=auth-defaults:

I don't use (nor recommend) netscape mail, but I had a visitor who
did, and he reported the same problems.  I checked login.conf, and
datasize-cur was set to 64 MB.  So if the problem is memory, you'll
need even more.

Greg
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