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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!izvestia.its.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!panix!cmcl2.nyu.edu!yale!usenet From: Brian Bissell <BBissell@eng2.uconn.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Netscape - X Windows swapping problem Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 21:59:34 -0700 Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Lines: 28 Message-ID: <3349D0B6.5572@eng2.uconn.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970327144339.1262A-100000@hell.sh.cvut.cz> Reply-To: BBissell@eng2.uconn.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: fester.brc.uconn.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) To: Jaroslav Klaus <klausik@skunk.sh.cvut.cz> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38711 Jarda- I've got the same problem. I'm running FreeBSD 2.1.5 on a 486DX-33 with 20MB Ram, 27MB swap, with 300MB of free (/usr) disk space. Typically, I can start X and Netscape (3.01), and have about 3% swap utilization. But this rapidly grows, and it will finally page my machine to death (100% utilization), until finally either the pager kills Netscape, my X server, or the whole thing halts... The problem appears to be in Netscape... I can't repeat the problem with any other app. Appearently, we're not alone. A few of my friends run into the same problem under Linux, and we've tossed around the possiblity of Java / JavaScript problems. Shutting down support for both languages doesn't seem to resolve the problem... I'm going to do more digging, and check Netscape under IRIX (I've heard that they've got bugs in 3.01 too). My Solution: I know it's hard, but try NCSA Mosaic. - Bri ------------------------------------------------------------------ Brian Bissell The University of Connecticut School of Engineering