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Date:      Tue, 12 Jan 1999 00:07:26 -0700
From:      Laszlo Vagner <kf7nn1@cybertrails.com>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        Peng HaiJie <phj@www.transfar.com>, Malartre <malartre@aei.ca>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Netscape 4.5 mail problem (keep crashing)
Message-ID:  <369AF4AE.C92F02BB@cybertrails.com>
References:  <36958BBD.5AE4480F@aei.ca> <369637EA.DC4D2D1A@www.transfar.com> <19990112112828.N8886@freebie.lemis.com>

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this scares me, i am using netscape 4.5 right now
and never had it crash although i am running as root and never tried
it as a  normal user.

the old 4.05 netscape would crash if it had java enabled on 
all of my bsd machines.



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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