Bug 3586
Summary: | Netscape 4.08/4.5/4.6/4.61 memory leak & crashing in Redhat 6.0 | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | dsp |
Component: | netscape | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 6.0 | CC: | rvokal, wilburn |
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Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 1999-08-18 21:39:24 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
dsp
1999-06-18 23:53:45 UTC
I am in the habit of running top just to see if there are any netscape processes running eating a lot of cpu. They can only be killed with -9. It seems to happen less often with 4.61, and on pages with java that have been cached and visited before. www.freshmeat.net uses to always shut down netscape, but not these days. I ran Netscape 4.61 w/ strace, and artificially 'forced' a crash -- I went into the hotmail composition and held down serveral keys until I had a long (but not excessive) message and it crashed. I have both a core file and a copy of the strace output. Netscape didn't act exactly as it does normally with this problem: this time it crashed (and took X down with it) relatively quickly, while normally it eats more and more memory, making it impossible to even to type, to get a terminal to kill it, or do anything else, but takes as long as 30 minutes to completely crash before returning control to the user. Gzipd the core and strace are about 140K -- should I send them somewhere? where? David I have also seem this problem on 3 machines: RH6.0, i386 gnome+enlightenment (various versions, stock to latest stable) netscape 4.6,4.51 problem is not consistently reproducable, but seems to occur on long form pages after using pull-down menu - can no longer enter text after this occurs. The previous two submitters seem much more knowlegable, but I'll be glad to provide more information, if useful. Scott submitted to netscape; they will have to provide a fix. Meanwhile, you might try running as: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/i386-glibc20-linux/lib \ /usr/i386-glibc20-linux/lib/ld-linux.so.2 \ /usr/lib/netscape/netscape-communicator I have the same problem with RH6.0, icewm(very small window manager) and Netscape Communicator 4.6. Is it just a netscape mistake? |