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To: Alan Char <alanchar@got.net>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.5 out of memory? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 24 Nov 1997 19:15:14 PST."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 21:23:29 -0800
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>I thought about that, however, I used limits to launch both netscape and
>the X server with a 512M memory limit, and it didn't change the behavior.

   Which memory limit did you set? There are three of them. Netscape is
probably hitting the data limit, but it could also be the stack limit.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project