>> In case you need it these are my system specs. >> >> Powermac G4 500MHz >> 512MB RAM >> Mac OS 9.22 >> 50MB RAM allocated to Mozilla >> Virtual Memory is turned off. >> > > I am not exactly sure what these stats mean, but if you mean there is a > hard limit of 50MB on the memory available to Mozilla than I am vaguely > surprised that Moz doesn't regularly crash...
I'm not familiar with Macs either (I'm guessing that Virtual Memory is basically a swap file). I think the basic question is this: does Mozilla need to have more than 50 MB of total memory available (physical memory plus virtual memory), or is this behavior a possible bug in the Mac version of Mozilla? If Mozilla needs more than 50 MB of total memory (on occasion), then it's perfectly reasonable to expect it to not work sometimes if it doesn't have that much available. Two things to try: allocate more physical memory to Mozilla and/or allow virtual memory to be used. Virtual memory allows the program to still work (albeit slowly at times) where otherwise it would crash, freeze, or fail in some way due to insufficent memory. If the problem remains after greatly increasing the amount of total memory available (including any virtual memory available ), then that suggests a possible bug. I'm not familiar with the memory requirements of Mozilla, but I'd be pretty surprised if it never requires more than 50 MB of total memory - at least when a user has multiple browser, composer, or mail windows open. -- Matt Coughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] <remove "sp4mless_" from the e-mail address to reply>
