Stupid Netscape Question

Vernard Martin vernard at cc.gatech.edu
Tue Feb 13 22:10:51 EST 1996


> My system is plain vanilla:  386, all IDE, VGA, 8M RAM, ethernetted through
> residence on a NE2000 clone.  Running the standard Slackware 3.0.0
> distribution, no surprises.

The Netscape binary is over 4.5 megs by itself. If you only ahve 8 megs of
RAM and are running X then unless you have a swap file or some other swap
space then you are crashing your machines because you have too little
memory.

V
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Vernard Martin
(vernard.martin at cc.gatech.edu) http://www.cc.gatech.edu/people/home/vernard/
College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332






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