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Date:      Tue, 12 Jan 1999 13:57:33 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Malartre <malartre@aei.ca>
Cc:        Peng HaiJie <phj@www.transfar.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Netscape 4.5 mail problem (keep crashing)
Message-ID:  <19990112135733.P8886@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <369ABC4C.3A48CF70@aei.ca>; from Malartre on Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 10:06:52PM -0500
References:  <36958BBD.5AE4480F@aei.ca> <369637EA.DC4D2D1A@www.transfar.com> <19990112112828.N8886@freebie.lemis.com> <369ABC4C.3A48CF70@aei.ca>

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On Monday, 11 January 1999 at 22:06:52 -0500, Malartre wrote:
> Greg Lehey wrote:
>>
>> 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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> And how about
> xuser:\
> :manpath=/usr/share/man /usr/X11R6/man /usr/local/man:\
> :cputime=4h:\
> :datasize=12M:\
> ?

It's possible.

> I will change to 24M.
> Anyway, is there a way to know "why it crashed"? I mean, netscape.core
> is not created for nothing, neh?

Right.  Get the source code, compile with symbols, and you're away :-)

Greg
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