From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 19:38:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 19:38:40 -0400 Received: from [216.151.155.121] ([216.151.155.121]:37391 "EHLO belphigor.mcnaught.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 19:38:30 -0400 To: "Garst R. Reese" Cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: VM or Netscape problem? In-Reply-To: <3BAA74B4.63243DDF@isn.net> From: Doug McNaught Date: 20 Sep 2001 19:38:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: "Garst R. Reese"'s message of "Thu, 20 Sep 2001 19:59:00 -0300" Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0806 (Gnus v5.8.6) XEmacs/21.1 (20 Minutes to Nikko) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "Garst R. Reese" writes: > This could be a long standing bug as it is difficult to reproduce. > Periodically Netscape(4.75) will tell me that it cannot find anybody, > including my mail server. This is after it has already been there in the > same session. Quitting Netscape and restarting fixes the problem. When I > see this and think to look at free, I find that I am just into swap a > few Mb. I'm wondering if VM could be kicking out part of Netscape and > not getting it back (in time). I've run into this too, under many kernels. Netscape 4.x doesn't need any kernel help to be buggy as hell. I don't use it anymore. With Mozilla where it is, I don't see any reason to run NS4 anymore, except perhaps for compatibility testing of websites. > I have also had the box lockup switching > back to X from a text VT and the problems could be related. Very doubtful. -Doug -- In a world of steel-eyed death, and men who are fighting to be warm, Come in, she said, I'll give you shelter from the storm. -Dylan