[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Netscape carshes my system



Hi,

This is the story:
I use netscape 4.5, RedHat 5.0 with 2.032 kernel, libc-2.0.7-19 and
Xfree86 3.3.1-14.

When browsing some sites which uses java, like
http://www.exlmarket.co.il for example, X starts allocating memory
(including the 128Mb swap space) till you kill netscape or until the
system freezes (yes! total crash!).
How can I restrict the amount of memory allowed for a user? Can I save
some memory of root so I can kill such processes?
I see that there is a file /etc/security/limits.conf which might do the
trick, but what parameter should I use?

This does not happen very often, but it makes me look bad after I show
off with my linux system and tell every one how better of NT it is.

Thanks,
-Guy.