On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Evan Fuller wrote:

> I recently downloaded Netscape 6 and like it better than earlier
> versions.  However, it uses over 200-300 MB of RAM (mostly SWAP space
> since I only have 64) and makes my computer incredibly slow.  I was
> wondering in anyone had a similar experience and might know how to deal
> with it.  Is there any kind of task manager than can limit memory usage
> of individual programs?  I am running GNOME on a KRUD distribution of
> Redhat 6.1.

See /etc/security/limits.conf. But that's for users. Not individual
programs. (It might help.) Although IME, Netscape barfs when it can't
malloc(3) more memory.

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