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From: gerg@netcom.com (Greg Andrews)
Subject: Re: Netscape - X Windows swapping problem
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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 04:46:31 GMT
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rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri) writes:
>
>I have just over 117MB of swap, and it still happens...  After a few
>days, depending on what else i run, Netscape 3.01 will slowly consume
>my swap until there's nothing left.  I have to exit it to recover
>about 60MB of swap, and then restart it.  I guess the Netscape
>programmers haven't heard about memory leaks.
>

I can just see Mark Andreesen lurking nearby, in his Mad Scientist
lab coat, wringing his hands.

  Look, Igor.  Today Ron's swap partition, tomorrow THE WORLD!

  BWAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAA!!!


  -Greg
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