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From: sjohn@alamak.com.sg
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Swap space not recovered w/ XF32 and Netscape
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>Number:         3706
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       Swap space not recovered w/ XF32 and Netscape
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed May 28 21:10:01 PDT 1997
>Closed-Date:    Thu May 29 09:59:13 MEST 1997
>Last-Modified:  Thu May 29 09:59:55 MEST 1997
>Originator:     John D. Saario
>Release:        2.2.1-RELEASE
>Organization:
Cyberway Internet
>Environment:
FreeBSD shock.cyberway.com.sg 2.2.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE #0: Thu May  8 19:03:11 SGT 1997
     root@shock.cyberway.com.sg:/usr/src/sys/compile/SHOCK  i386

>Description:
Installation on 2 seperate machines, one w/ IDE the other using Adaptec
SCSI 2940 both have same problem. Run netscape on a game http://www.alamak.com.sg/game/
reading local images from disk so should not be cached but anyway swap
fills up and netwcape3.01 crashes. I'm not sure if it's incompatable 
compile of netscape and freebsd release or a FreeBSD problem. Of course
I can't recompile netscape to test (no source).
>How-To-Repeat:
Install 2.2.1-RELEASE XF8632 Netscape and run it repeatedly on pages
with images, http://www.alamak.com/game/ should do the trick.
I think it will do the same thing even if using the remove images rather
than local files on disk.
>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To: sjohn@alamak.com.sg
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: kern/3706: Swap space not recovered w/ XF32 and Netscape
Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 08:59:37 +0200

 As sjohn@alamak.com.sg wrote:
 
 >  Run netscape on a game http://www.alamak.com.sg/game/
 > reading local images from disk so should not be cached but anyway swap
 > fills up and netwcape3.01 crashes. I'm not sure if it's incompatable 
 > compile of netscape and freebsd release or a FreeBSD problem. Of course
 > I can't recompile netscape to test (no source).
 
 Neither can we, so why are you reporting it to us?
 
 IMHO, BSD Netcrap is still using the dreaded old BSD malloc library
 (or did BSD/OS implement something new finally?).  It is prone to eat
 up all your VM, and it cannot return VM to the system, ever, except by
 killing/exiting the process.  Netscape fights against Mickeysoft, and
 their Unix products (in particular the Navigator for BSD/OS) is below
 the limit of interest for them.  They don't even claim support for it.
 
 Also, the above URL can _never_ considered to be local.  Only file
 URLs are probably considered to be this.  As such, they will probably
 always be cached.
 
 Fix: either configure enough swap space, or don't run Netscape.
 
 -- 
 cheers, J"org
 
 joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
 Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: joerg 
State-Changed-When: Thu May 29 09:59:13 MEST 1997 
State-Changed-Why:  
We are unable to fix Netscape either, sorry. 
>Unformatted:
