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From: rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Netscape crashes X!
Date: 25 Oct 1996 17:27:34 -0700
Organization: fidgety systems administrators gmbh
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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.

rone
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