Re: netscape 4.76 freezes

[joost@topaz.mdcc.cx (Joost Kooij)]

On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 03:43:45AM -0400, xk035@netscape.net wrote:
> every now and then (i REALLY dont know at what specific actions)
> netscape freezes up my machine. i cannot do anything but switch off and
> let fsck do its magic.  has anyone of you experienced this also? i
> have smp activated in the kernel, to use both of my processors. maybe
> thats a problem? i read several mailing list archives and the problem
> does seem to be known. only i havent found a solution yet.

Have you tried setting resource limits, so that netscape cannot make
your machine run out of memory?  man ulimit(1) and setrlimit(2).

Cheers,


Joost