On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :One variable may be available memory. On my system, with default datasize > :limit of 16M from login.conf, Netscape coredumps very frequently. With > > 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>
Just to clarify: 1) I'm not sure I would necesarily accuse Netscape of having a leak: what with caching pages in RAM and the allocation policy of whatever malloc they use, maybe it really needs this much and would stabilise at some size of 100M+ - I just don't have the swap space to find out. 2) I have never seen a system crash as such. However, having the X server killed due to out-of-swap leaves the console fouled up and so could easily be mis-described as a crash. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
