Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: VM or Netscape problem? | From | Doug McNaught <> | Date | 20 Sep 2001 19:38:41 -0400 |
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"Garst R. Reese" <reese@isn.net> 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.
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