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Re: Netscape SOS



Freezes mean software engineers don't have everything figured out.

The operating system uses cache and virtual memory to store the program code
and data. Some programs do the same thing on their own. They necessarily
cooperate, but the odds of perfection get longer and longer the bigger the
programming team.

Our computers have become so RAM large and CPU powerful it seems attractive to
run several programs at the same time, start and stop multiple programs over
and over in one session, max the cache and virtual memory settings and so on.
As you do you also push the odds.

Netscape does its own caching, it can conflict with cache and virtual memory
settings on the MacOS. In my support experience on the Mac side, that's the
first thing to check in a freeze of Netscape.

Charlie Goodspeed