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In article <4msqf1$8c2@al.imforei.apana.org.au>,
	pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au (Peter Childs) writes:
>
>Joanne Kilian (jo@eden.apana.org.au) wrote:
>
>: >How long did you wait for it?  With my 486 and 8mg of ram Netscrape
>: >*regularly* (like, every ten pages or so) freezes the entire computer
>: >for several minutes while it does garbage collection ... it's bad
>: >enough to have reduced me to using Lynx 90% of the time.

Netscape for me I have found freezes up at the beginning when loading fonts.
I sped up the access time for Netscape by running a font server.
(Linux)

On my SPARC, however, I only have Openwindows and no font server,
so Netscape takes ages to load (even with 36mb of RAM).

Sometimes Netscape, on both Linux and Sun freezes while doing DNS lookups.
My solution to this was to run a small caching named (until I get a real
DNS entry).

>
>: I get exactly the same thing happening.  The first time I thought
>: something had gone seriously wrong.  The problem is for most of the
>: time nothing appears to be happening - no mouse or control, no disc 
>: accesses/swaping - it's just that the cpu is so busy nothing else is 
>: happening.

I reckon Netscape is just not well optimised.

>
>: It really does seem to take quite some time, but nothing's wrong.
>
> If you running linux+XWindows+Netscape in 8mb of Ram on a 486 with
> IDE drives I'm supprised I can't hear it swapping from here...

Me too - more RAM and the suggestions above will make it better.
In the meantime, try turning off the memory and disk caching,
Netscape can grow to an enormous size (like Lucky the Cat) 
when the index for the cache grows in memory (I think).

Turning off caching in NS seems to be a quick, but temporary 
fix for Macs and PCs anyway, so I guess the same goes for X...

At the very least if you only have 8mb, don't use the memory cache.

> Ram is cheap, so grab some more :)

Personally, I am amazed at how cheap RAM is getting...
I bought 32MB of Parity RAM for les than $900 and it works great!

Rachel

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