:One variable may be available memory.  On my system, with default datasize
:limit of 16M from login.conf, Netscape coredumps very frequently.  With
:datasize unlimited, Netscape eats all the available swap (this system is
:64M real 128M swap) and kills the system that way.  I currently run
:Netscape with datasize set to 64M, pending a new disc for more swap!  In
:this configuration, Netscape either coredumps or starts behavhing oddly
:about once every 3 days, but at least I can just restart it rather than
:needing to reboot after a swap outage.
:
:Colour depth also has an effect - changing from 8-bit to 32-bit on the X
:server seems to have made this worse (as you might expect).

    I've been using netscape on a 24bit color system for well over a year
    and have never had a serious memory leak problem or X session ( or
    machine ) crashing due to it.  I don't leave the netscape window open
    all the time, though... I tend to exit out of it when I'm not using it.

                                        -Matt
                                        Matthew Dillon 
                                        <dil...@backplane.com>


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