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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.idt.net!mr.net!news.sgi.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.uoregon.edu!Symiserver2.symantec.com!news From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Netscape crashes X! Date: 26 Oct 1996 06:54:27 GMT Organization: Symantec Corp. Lines: 12 Message-ID: <54scj3$g8f@Symiserver2.symantec.com> References: <32704F9E.1781@ibm.net> <54rltm$el@bofh.noc.best.net> <54s87c$bgr@uuneo.neosoft.com> Reply-To: tedm@agora.rdrop.com NNTP-Posting-Host: shiva1.central.com X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2.5 In <54s87c$bgr@uuneo.neosoft.com>, conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) writes: >Well, that *could* have something to do with it. Insufficient swap, >especially for an app that's as memory-hungry as Netscape. Yes. > >I have 24 megs of RAM, and setup my swap file as roughly 2x that. > I have run Netscape 3.0 under X-windows on an 8 meg 486/33 with about 40MB of swap as a test and I never had any trouble with it. Slow, yes, but it didn't crash.