Ragga Muffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrotes: > Daniel Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Michiel Meeuwissen wrote: > > > It seems that a way to accomplish this is running apt-get upgrade, > > > netsape and seti at the same time, in my computer (potato, PIII 500 64 > > > Mb). > > > > On Netscape's webpage they strongly recommend at least 64 Mb of RAM for > > use of Netscape with Linux. So if you run Netscape AND another > > resource-eating program on a 64 Mb machine, you can expect high loads, at > > least at startup. > > True in a sense, but I can use Nscape 4.5 and plenty of apps including > dselect/apt on a Cyrix166 with 32Mb. > No. There's something REALLY weird if Michiel bogs his PIII-500/64Mb > with that... > > > Simpler solution: Don't start Netscape if you don't really, really need > > it.
I never really, really need it, but well, it's simply handy to have it running. > > If you don't use it, it'll be swapped to disk, so that's not really > a solution, just a little band-aid. > > Michiel, post some more details here, like kernel version, swap-size, > window/desktop manager etc. > > I strongly suspect some hardware/driver problem here. kernel: Linux warande1124 2.2.14 #1 Sat Jan 29 10:53:47 CET 2000 i686 unknown swap-size: /dev/hda3 332 364 133056 82 Linux swap window manager: fvwm X: XF86_Mach64 I'm pretty sure that it is a matter of memory exhaustion. Netscape leaks memory until memory + swap are full, and everything gets terribly slow. I certainly does not leak memory always, but I didn't found out yet what I have to to to let it start Perhaps it has to do with other runing programs as well. Anyhow, I know that netscape is buggy, and I only want that it does not hang the whole system in such a case. I added a line * hard rss 10000 to /etc/security/limits.conf, but I've no clear understanding what it means. If I make '10000' very small, like '10' or so, then I can't do much (e.g. man won't work anymore), so I have the impression that it does something. But would it do anything to a program like netscape as well? greetings, Michiel -- % Michiel Meeuwissen % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.purl.org/NET/mihxil/ % Vidu ankaux: http://www.uea.org/katalogo
