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SubjectRe: Out of Memory
In <XFMail.990909165949.ericof@usa.net> Erico Freitas (ericof@usa.net) wrote:
> Hello,

> I'm wondering if this is the best place to ask this question, but here it
> goes:

> I'm running kernel 2.2.10 on an AMD K6 300 with 64megs of RAM and a
> 64Megabyte swap partition. I've noticed this problem recently: If I open a
> few Netscape windows (6 or 7) and say several full screen images I start to
> run out of memory. There's a lot of disk activity when this happens and the
> computer slows to a crawl, kills a few applications here and there and when I
> can get a hold of a terminal and kill Netscape, things go back to normal.
> Sometimes, though the Window Manager closes/crashes and I have to relog.

> Is this normal behaviour or is there something wrong with my system?

It's pretty normal. Netscape is huge momory hog and 128MiB of virtual RAM
is just not enough...




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