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From: Herbert Xu
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 00:00

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Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> 
> Herbert Xu wrote:
> >
> > Even though netscape is not the best written software out there, but
> > what you're seeing really sounds like a buggy X server.
> 
> No, just a combination of Netrape with not enough RAM (I commented
> on that in previous post, don't tell me to go get more RAM) and
> kernel-2.0.30.  I've also seen that "couldn't get a free page" kernel
> stack trace once -- on vc7 where I got after quitting X
> (log is on vc8 btw.)

There is not much doubt that Netscape is actually causing these lockups
to occur but the fact that they occur implies that either the X server
or the kernel (as you said that you're using 2.0.30 which is known to
have problems with its buffer code) has bugs.

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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@greathan.apana.org.au>
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Date: 1997/07/19
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