2.1.131: Poor behavior when VM exhausted

Eric Lee Green (eric@linux-hw.com)
Sun, 20 Dec 1998 22:46:17 -0500 (EST)


Hello all. Has anybody else noticed this? All versions of Netscape
that I have used have a memory leak in the input box, so I get to test
what happens when VM is exhausted on a regular basis :-).

2.0.36: System goes into a bit of a swap storm, gets very sluggish, but I can
switch to another window and kill Netscape.

2.1.131: System goes into a furious swap storm, when try to switch to
another window "X" locks up, cannot move mouse pointer, reset switch
time.

Has anybody else noticed this?

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Eric Lee Green         eric@linux-hw.com     http://www.linux-hw.com/~eric
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