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Old 06-01-2001, 02:08 AM   #1
bobthebat
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I have been running RedHat 7.0 on my computer for several months now, along with mozilla and netscape. Just recently (last night) mozilla started acting up. At first things just seemed really slow and I could hear lots of hdd activity. So I looked at my system monitor, to find that I was using both my full 128 megs of RAM and 256 megs of swap space (!). I had never seen the RAM usage get above 50%, so this alarmed me somewhat. Things just went downhill from there. The computer reacted slower and slower, and when I was finally able to get into the virtual console I had launched X from to see errors, I saw a big ugly error from mozilla, saying something about "Do you want to debug? this requires lots of memory". The really weird thing was, all of the t's and r's were missing from the text, and there were all sorts of other anomolies in the text. I couln't kill mozilla fast enough, so eventually the computer just froze into a dead halt, no hard disk activity, no response to anything. (BTW that is the first time I've crashed linux). I had to hard reset, and when I got my system up again, I found a nice big core file waiting for me. I assumed it was a one time thing, but it hasn't been. It seems to happen both in Netscape and Mozilla now, meaning I have to use lynx for most stuff. It only seems to happen when I have a few browsing windows open, but they are not at any special sites or anything. Just browsing slashdot, getting things from cnet, etc. If anyone knows at all what could be causing this, I would love to hear your ideas. My linux box is now crashing at least once a day, although sometimes I am able to kill my browser before it gets out of hand.
Thanks in advance,
bobthebat
 
Old 06-01-2001, 07:57 AM   #2
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no suggestions, i am actually looking for similar answers as you.... check out my thread in the installation froum... http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...?threadid=2989

i feel your pain, as if it was my own...
 
Old 06-01-2001, 02:01 PM   #3
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Er... What version of Mozilla are you using?

Try to upgrade Mozilla. Get version .9 or download one of the nightly builds. http://www.mozillazine.org has links to nightly builds and also mentions which ones are stable.

I've had NO problems with Mozilla .9 or the version I use now (one of the nightly builds).

Rimmer

PS - I have had problems in the past with Mozilla not exiting cleanly... check top to make sure there aren't any mozilla processes left after you quit the program.
 
Old 06-02-2001, 06:04 AM   #4
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There is a known bug with Netscape that it continually asks for more and more memory, but I thought that this problem had been finished with in Mozilla. If it is Mozilla you are using then log a bug with them.
 
  


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