I <alicia@2001.ca> wrote:
>> I just installed the BSDI port of Netscape's Communicator 4.02b7.
>> I downloaded communicator from:
>> ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/4.02/4.02b7/english/unix/bsdi11/base_install/communicator-v402b7-export.x86-bsdi-bsd.tar.gz
>> The installation went through smoothly, without any error.  However,
>> when I run Netscape's Communicator, I get the error message:
>> 	Cannot allocate memory.
>> Even though I have 32 MB of ram.  I am running i386 NetBSD current
>> with BSDI emulation compiled into the kernel.

Frank van der Linden <frank@wins.uva.nl> wrote:
> Ah, in that case the problem seems to be that execve() sees that the
> text segment of the executable is too big (i.e. above the limit).
> The limit for the text segment was 8Mb in 1.2, this might just
> be too small for Communicator. It's 64Mb in -current.
> What you can do about this is edit /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/include/vmparam.h
> and change MAXTSIZ to something bigger than 8Mb, then recompile. 12Mb will
> probably do for Communicator, but you might as well make it 64Mb.

Dear NetBSD users:

Following Frank's advice, I upped the MAXTSIZ and other values
in vmparam.h, recompiled the kernel, and rebooted the new kernel.
With the new kernel, communicator runs great without any problems.
:-)

Cheers, Alicia.
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