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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!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!insync!uuneo.neosoft.com!not-for-mail From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Netscape crashes X! Date: 26 Oct 1996 05:39:56 GMT Organization: What? Me, organize? Lines: 33 Message-ID: <54s87c$bgr@uuneo.neosoft.com> References: <32704F9E.1781@ibm.net> <54rltm$el@bofh.noc.best.net> Reply-To: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.165.146 In article <54rltm$el@bofh.noc.best.net>, Ron Echeverri <rone@bofh.noc.best.net> wrote: >In article <32704F9E.1781@ibm.net>, Jeff Genender <jgenend@ibm.net> wrote: >>I am wondering if anyone has seen a similar problem as me on FreeBSD >>2.1.5R. I have my X Windows configured nicely and runs most >>applicatations as expected. The only problem I have is with Netscape >>3.0 (BSDI binary). When I run it for a while (actually this will happen >>at any random time - 2 minutes, 5 minutes - who knows) The system locks >>solid. I cannot even get a telnet connection. There is no core dump >>and I have to reboot the system (uggh) with the reset key or repower the >>system. > >I'm betting you're running out of swap space. How much RAM and swap >space do you have on your machine? I had to add 40MB of swap just to >run Netscape 2. 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. No, I think it's as John said; he needs to try the x86-unknown-bsd version. I've been using these versions since I first got into FreeBSD, and they've never given me any problem. But the swap thing might be something to look into as well, yes. -- Conrad Sabatier | conrads@neosoft.com | Eschew obfuscation. http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads |