On Wed, 13 May 1998, Eddie Kuns wrote: >"top" told me that Netscape was using over 90M of memory! Not that uncommon. Sometime back (I use the 4.03 Netscape version) I left for work with Netscape pointed to www.kremlinkam.com, and when I returned some nine hours later, Netscape had eaten nearly all my available memory. >I have no earthly idea why Netscape (netscape-communicator-4.04-3 RPM) >would suddenly start consuming memory when it hasn't done this before, but >oh well. Netscape (especially the Communicator releases) seems to require a lot of memory. Continual usage, especially frequent loading of new pages (and apparently Java as in the case with kremlinkam I noticed) will keep making netscape require more memory. You don't, of course, want to attempt running out of memory or swap space. Usually Linux goes into a panic shuffle mode when this happens, as it frantically tries to rummage through pages trying to free up some memory. This also might explain the load average increasing steadily. > Eddie > >P.S. Is there a swap alarm available? It'd be nice to have some warning >that swap was about to be exhausted! Dunno about that. It seems a good idea. top can be a useful indicator of this, however. I typically run it inside its own xterm all the time so I can routinely check things like that. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Tax Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] the change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] churches on your hard disk. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
